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FIVE LECTURES 



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Scripture Prophecy, 



BY 



REY. A. WHITMAN. 



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REY. A. WHITMAH. 



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BY REV. A. WHITMAN. 



JITHESE lectures are an outline of a work of five hundred 
^ royal octavo pages, which the author has in press. Two 
hundred pages are already completed, and^the balance com- 
ing out as soon as means can be obtained to complete it. 

The author- has delivered these lectures in over two 
hundred places, giving from three to five lectures in a place, 
and now by the earnest solicitation of friends, and by 
the advice of ^ble ministers of different denominations 
of Evangelical Christians, consents to put them in this 
pamphlet form, so that if there is benefit in hearing them, 
that benefit may be more widely enjoyed. 

After studying this subject for twenty years and writing 
on it, the author became convinced that many of the mis- 
takes and most of the errors on the subject arose from the 
habit of taking the prophecies in fragmentary and isolated 
parts, and that they could not be so understood, that they 
were an all-comprehending, all-related system, and as soon 
as they began to be studied as a system or divine plan to 
execute an eternal purpose, they assumed a beauty and 
symmetry, a clearness and harmony not before seen. The 



Introductory. 



work as written is a fair and plain development of that 
plan as conceived by the author. These lectures are a fair 
outline of that whole system. 

It is well known that there are at the present time in 
the religious world two systems of interpretation of the 
prophecies, not two systems of prophecy. The one is 
called the spiritualizing system, the other the literalizing 
system, and it is fair that both systems be clearly and fairly 
s'tated, so that while reading the one the mind can contrast 
it with the other. The spiritualizing system diverges from 
the literalizing on the following points, with others : That 
that original grant of God to Abraham of the whole land of 
Canaan, to him and his posterity and forever, has been 
forfeited or has expired. The other system holds that as 
that grant had in it no conditions and was only dependent 
on the veracity and ability of God, it cannot be forfeited, 
but is in as full force to-day as the day it was made by the 
oath of God. The spiritualizing system assumes that the 
Jews, having by their disobedience forfeited their claim to 
that land and God in his displeasure having dispersed them, 
are never again to be gathered to the land given to 
Abraham for a land, renewed by oath to Isaac and confirmed 
to Jacob. The literalizing system assumes that while there 
were no conditions in the original grant, and so cannot be 
forfeited, there were conditions for the continued possession, 
and those conditions having been violated they have lost 
the possession, and, in the displeasure of God, by his provi- 
dence he has dispersed them into all the nations of the 
earth ; but that he has pledged to restore the whole house 
of Israel, the whole twelve tribes of Israel, on the land he 
gave their fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 

Again, the spiritualizing system denies that there is to 
be any literal battle at Armageddon, but it is the conflict 



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between good and evil constantly occurring. While the 
literalizing system recognizes the contest constantly going 
on between good and evil in the world, they at the same 
time look for the most terrific literal battle, fought on the 
mountains of Israel at some future day not veryi^ar off, this 
world has ever witnessed, which shall decide its final fate. 

Again, the spiritualizing system denies the establish- 
ment of a literal kingdom of saints on earth. It is to be a 
kind of spiritual something, themselves do not know what 
or can they guess when. The literalizing system assumes 
there is to be a time when the saints shall possess the 
kingdom, in a sovereign sense, and that it is to occupy the 
space occupied by each and -all the four great Gentile 
sovereign powers, symbolized in Nebuchadnezzar's image, 
and besides to fill the whole earth, and that it is to be set up 
in a sovereign form as soon as all these are broken to pieces 
by the stone cut out of the mountain without hand ; and 
then, when the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled, the fifth 
great sovereign power or kingdom which is the literal 
positive kingdom of the God of Heaven given to the son of 
man by the ancient of days, as by Daniel, or as by Jesus, 
the kingdom given to the great nobleman on his return. 

Again, the spiritualizing system denies any literal res- 
urrection of the saints previous to the general resurrection 
of the righteous and the wicked ; while the literalizing 
system assumes that the entire mass of the righteous will 
all return with Jesus and reign with him, and literally, 
positively, personally reign with him a thousand years 
before the wicked are raised from the dead. 

Once more, only, the spiritualizing system denies the 
literal personal return of Christ till he comes to judgment ; 
while the literalizing system assumes that he is x^ledged to 
return literally, positively and personally ; to reign on 



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David's throne for a thousand years with all the saints, 
according to God's oath to David, as referred to by Peter 
on Pentecost ; says Peter, Acts, ch. 2 : He (David) being a 
prophet, and knowing that God had sworn by an oath to 
him, of the fruit of his loins he would raise up Christ to sit 
on his throne, spake of the resurrection of Christ. 

These are the main points of difference between the two 
systems. The spiritualizing system was first introduced 
into the religious world about 1640, by Dr. Lightfoot, an 
English divine of that day, and that, up to that time, the 
whole evangelic world had held to the literal system as 
proved by Dr. Hales, of England, in his great work on 
Chronology. * 

This spiritualizing system is adopted by what are right- 
fully denominated the Schoolmen of the different christian 
denominations of the present day, and occupy precisely the 
position regarding the prophecies concerning Christ occu- 
pied by the old Pharisees at his first coming. No intelli- 
gent person, believer or non-believer, can candidly read 
the Old Testament scriptures, without seeing two clear and 
distinct classes of prophecies applied to the Jewish Messiah. 
One class represent Him as coming in a condition of poverty, 
born of a Virgin, growing up to become a man of sor- 
rows, rejected, and finally crucified by his own people 
as a malefactor; and yet, by his voluntary death, making 
an infinite and all-sufiicient atonement for guilty men, 
and by his innocent, spotless and beneficent life wrought 
a robe of righteousness to clothe the whole of his ransomed 
fiock. And that there is another class of prophecies in 
the .same scriptures, that speak of the same person as 
clothed with power and authority, gathering to him- 
self the people, establishing a universal dominion and 
reigning forever, as long as the sun and moon endure, 



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as a King of David^s line, of David^s throne. Isaiah 
9: 6, 7, puts it beyond a doubt that the sovereign King 
on David's throne is tlie child born (of Mary), and the 
son given. And " this is Jesus of Nazareth, the King of 
the Jews.'' Now, just as the Pharisees of Christ's day 
reversed the order of these j)rophecies, and so crucified 
their own long looked for Messiah, just so exactly are the 
schoolmen of the present day doing — reversing the order of 
the prophecies, and looking for him to do what he did when 
he came : to establish a spiritual Kingdom ; and not look- 
ing for him to come and speedily avenge his own elect, jus- 
tifying Jesus' expression as given by Dr. CamiDbell, of 
Aberdeen, Scotland : '' Nevertheless, when the Son of man 
Cometh, shall he find this faith on earth" — that he is coiur 
ing to speedily avenge his people. 

Thus we have sought to place fairly before our readers 
both systems of interpretation, adopted by different parties 
at the present day. 



LECTURE FIRST. 



The Prophecies.— A System and How.— Foundation Principles and 
Preliminary Remarks. 



'D'ND, Firsts There is one self-existent, independent, free, 
r^ eternal Godhead ; possessing every possible or conceivable 
perfection, to an infinite or limitless (!egree. This doctrine 
subverts all foundation of nature worship ; by reveahng 
to the mind an adequate cause for all the phenomena of 
the universe of matter or mind, and leads it to rest on an 
ultimate truth; completely fulfilling the conditions and 
demands of our being, and requires no assistance from Ma- 
terialism, Darwinian ism, Neology or Evolution. 

Second. It reveals to us that, with that Godhead, there 
is one eternal purpose, which he purposed in himself, the 
revelation, manifestation, or open showing of his limitless 
perfections before a universe of moral agencies, so as to 
secure from all unswerving obedience; and to all who 
yield that obedience endless and increasing felicity, by the 
processes of admiration, imitation, adoration and assimi- 
lation. This principle recognizes the necessity of volun- 
tary obedience to rightful authority, as the condition of 
blessing under the Divine administration. 

Third. That prior to creation and independent of it 
there were three divine and equal i^ersonalities in the God- 
head. Two of them are revealed to us in the first verse of 
Genesis in the plural form of the Hebrew word gods, again 
in verse 26, Let us make man in our likeness. Again, 
chapter 3, verse 22, The man is become as one of us. The 



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third one of these divine personalities is revealed in chapter 
1, verse 2, The spirit of God sat brooding over the dark 
abyss impregnating nature with laws and forces, and setting 
at work secondary causes to bring the earth into form and 
order and fill it with what we call life ; as the only life- 
giving power revealed to us in the Bible, setting a current 
of electricity circling the earth, which gave it its motion 
and form and first light before the sun was made. 

Fourth. That before all things two of these divine 
personalities entered into a covenant engagement, having 
stipulations on each side to be performed in time, that, by 
the death of tlie mediator, from a race of fallen rebels there 
shall be redeemed, renewed, sanctified and finally glorified 
a multitude that no man can number, from every tribe and 
tongue and nation, brought up through great tribulation, 
washing their robes and making them white in the blood 
of the lamb, who shall constitute the highest theocrasy in 
Jehovah's empire and to enjoy his richest favor. 

Fifth. That prior to creation one of these divine per- 
sonalities engaged to put himself into relationship Avith 
humanity, so that the two natures should become one 
person, the Godman mediator, for the execution of that 
divine plan or covenant ; and thus become the medium or 
channel of revelation unfolding the attributes of the invisible 
deity, through a series of creative acts, from the lowest to 
the highest forms of matter and types of life, ending in the 
highest type of spiritual life in ransomed, renewed and 
finally glorified subjects of Christ's grace. 

Sixth, That the divine humanity was the first creation 
of God, Rev., chapter 3, verse 14, The beginning of the 
creation of God. Col., chapter 1, verse 15, The first born of 
every creature. Prov., chapter 8, verse 23, 1 was annointed 
from everlasting from the beginning (to the mediatorial 
work) creation, government, redemption. 



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Now prophecy comprises the entire period from that 
point of beginning to the point when ^ * he shall have subdued 
all things unto himself, spoken of by Paul, 1st Cor., loth 
chapter, Then he shall give up the kingdom to God the 
Father, that God may be all in all." And prophecy is an 
outline of the mediatorial work. 

Seventh, In the performance of the mediatorial work, 
meeting his assumed responsibilities, the mediator created 
all things and without him was not anything made that 
was made. And the government of the universe is so 
completely in his hands that he could truly say, *'A11 
authority is given to me in heaven and earth, and he is the 
author of eternal redemption to all that obey him." Thus 
there are three fields of revelation of the perfections of God, 
creation, government, redemption, seen at last in its highest 
manifestation at Calvary, where justice and mercy meet in 
the death of Christ, the redemption, restoration and salva- 
tion of sinners and their final glory at Christ's second 
coming, and their eternal home in the new heaven and 
earth. 

Eighth. Moral agency involves voluntary obedience to 
rightful authority ; so, also, a necessity of moral agency is 
a test and proof of fidelity. That was furnished to our 
parents in the prohibition : *' Of the tree of good and evil 
thou shalt not eat of it." How, then, were the angels 
tested, tried? Paul, as we conceive, gives us that clew in 
Heb. 1 : 6th : '' And when he bringeth in the first begotten 
into the habitable universe, he said, let all the angels of God 
worship him." This, I suppose, and believe, was before sin 
had marred the works of God, or a creature had disobeyed 
his command; when, as Peter tells us, (from pride) one of 
the high and holy beings refused to worship the Son, and 
fell and assumed the position of a rebel, and became a devil. 



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Says Jesus, he was a murderer from the beginning, and 
abode not in the truth— did not remain, continue, in the 
truth. He refused to worship to Son, but led off a vast 
multitude of those holy beings whom Jesus, in Math. 25th, 
calls his angels. Tliis brought on a contest between Christ 
and that old serpent, the Devil, which has lasted through- 
out the ages, and not yet ended ; but to be concluded at 
the great battle of God Ahnighty in the valley of Armaged- 
don, and on the mountains of Israel, at the close of the 
time of the Gentiles. 

Ninth. There has thus been but two claimants for this 
world, and two contestants for the homage and devotion of 
the human heart, Christand the Devil. Now, the Bible rec- 
ognizes all forms of idolatry as Devil w^orship, and that each 
individual of the race is on one side of that controversy, 
and will be rewarded accordingly. 

Tenth. That God, in the administration of human 
affairs, has never failed to have a sovereign representative 
administration on earth symbolizing his Divine authority, 
into whose hands he has put great interests in trust for 
the race, holding that powder responsible for their maintain- 
ance and transmission. God i^ut that power into the hands 
of the Patriarchs, from Adam to Abraham ; and those great 
interests were, first, the knowledge of that one God with 
infinite perfections ; second, the knowledge of the coming 
Deliverer for the fallen race. The value to the race, and 
each individually, is set forth in Jesus' language: ^'And 
this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only 
true- God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent." 

The third great truth, entrusted to the keeping of the 
Patriarchs, was, One supernaturally called out, endowed, sus- 
tained and commissioned Humanity, w^ho should possess 
and manifest that hidden and spiritual life. It is patent to 



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all the Patriarchs failed to maintain those sacred trusts ; 
for, though there were s6me men like Abel and Seth and 
Enoch, and finally Noah, yet, among the masses, there 
was a yielding to opposing influences. And the flood 
swept them away. Again, the same trial continued after 
the flood in the hands of the Patriarchs, and again idolatry 
l^revailed again, about eleven hundred years^after the flood 
in Abraham's day. 

Eleventh. As the Patriarchal trial had twice failed, 
God now called Abraham out from a race and family of 
idolaters, by a supernatural call, endowed him with a 
supernatural life and sublime faith in him, and set him 
apart, with his posterity after him, to be the depositaries 
of that sacred trust for the race, holding them responsible 
for their maintainance and transmission; then gave them 
all needful facilitijes to secure the object; then j^romised 
that, through his seed, all the families of the earth should 
be blessed, and that his seed should be heir of the world. 
Six hundred and six years B. C. the Jews failed to meet 
their responsibilities, and God took those great interests out 
of their hands. And now, six hundred and six years B. 
C, the Jewish trial having failed, as had the Patriarchal, God 
put those interests into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, king 
of Babylon, as a Gentile sovereign. Then, by a symbol of 
his image, showed him and the world that those interests 
would be held by four great sovereign Gentile powers till 
the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled, or to the battle of 
Armageddon. 

Twelfth. God holds men, families and nations respon- 
sible moral agents on probation, for a higher condition 
under his government, and higher felicity under his king- 
dom ; and, as such, he finally rewards or punishes for obe- 
dience or disobedience. These principles will be con stantly 



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referred to and illustrated in this work. They are the foun- 
dation of that system of interpretation adopted in this 
system. Let it now constantly be borne in mind that He 
that was annointed from everlasting, was He that walked 
in the garden in the cool of the day — that was promised, as 
the seed of the woman, to crush the serpen t^s head — who 
walked with Abraham, talked with him, ate with him — 
who wrestled with Jacob— that talked face to face with 
Moses — that was in the pillar of fire — in the glory of the 
Temple — is Isaiah's child born— Jeremiah's Emmanuel — 
Mary's son Jesus— the crucified, buried, ascended, inter- 
ceding, and finally returning nobleman, to establish the 
fifth great monarchy on earth, and fulfill God's oath to 
David. As mentioned by Peter, on Pentecost, that David 
knew as a prophet, that God had sw^orn with an oath to 
him that, of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh, he 
would raise up Christ to sit on his throne. 

Christ commences his mediatorial work, revealing the 
perfections of God in creation, till they declare his glory, 
and show forth his handiwork, and all aglow with 
Divine manifestations, his eternal power and Godhead 
are clearly seen. The Mediator would then seek some 
higher plane of revelation of the divine perfections, 
so revealed him as moral governor, issuing his com- 
mands to moral agents, and putting them under moral 
government. And^, as soon as Satan beheld Adam and 
Eve, he came forward in the contest; and, appearing in 
the presence of those probationers, he contradicted God's 
work, and Eve, being deceived by his subtlety, disobeyed 
God. Adam simply followed his wife. Satan's object was 
gained, God's works were marred and man was ruined. 

The contest is now transferred to this world, and the 
parties clearly defined. I will put enmity, said he to Satan, 



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between thy seed and her seed (the woman's) ; he shall 
crush thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel. God had 
presented to Adam the clearest and simplest test of fidelity, 
as amoral agent, and he had failed. They had only to yield 
obedience to rightful authority, and all would be well. Adam 
had vast interests for the race in his hands, but O, how 
recklessly did he vilely cast them away. His Father had 
provided, in the tree of life in the garden, for all the natural 
physical decay of the system, which immortalized the eater. 
So God tells us. But he is now driven from access to that 
tree, and out of the garden to till the ground from whence 
he was taken, and it is to bear thorns and briars. And 
now man, made in his physical nature after that divine 
and model man, and mentally and morally, is a wreck, a 
ruin — a condemned rebel. He who, as a federal head of a 
race, held in his hands a Father's ample patrimony for all 
his numberless posterity, is turned out in poverty and dis- 
grace, to get his bread with the sweat of his brow, and a 
heavy affliction pronounced upon poor deceived Eve. 

Then He stationed on the east of the garden an 
enfolding flame and cherubim, to keep the v/ay to the tree 
of life. I know we are told of a flaming sword, and the 
common idea is, there was some arrangement to keep 
people away from the tree of life. Now, all writers that 
I have examined on the subject tell us that the word keef), 
here used, is the same found everywhere, when we are 
commanded to keep the commandments of God by observ- 
ing and doing them. Then here is something to be 
observed, and may be if we should say obeyed it might 
not be far wrong ; we will see by and by. Then we are told 
by the best Hebrew scholars that there is no thought of a 
sword in the passage. But an enfolding flame as a symbol 
of the divine presence, like the enfolding flame in Ezek, 1 ; 



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like the burning bush of Moses ; like the pillar of fire in 
the wilderness, or the Shekinah glory in the temple, a 
visible symbol of the presence of God in an enfolding flame. 
And then add the cherubim, which in the tabernacle as in 
the temple hovered over the mercy seat of God. And then 
accept the thought that when Christ clothed Adam and 
Eve with coats of skin, he offered the animals in sacrifice 
on an altar of unhewed stones as afterward he ordered ; and 
that altar erected, before that Shekinah flame accompanied 
by the cherubim ; and you have revealed, in keeping with 
the whole tenor of scripture truth, a most gracious provision 
of mercy, wiiere the humble penitent sinner may come and 
like Abel offer up his bleeding lamb and thereby confess 
his sin and ill-desert and declare his faith in the great 
deliverer, and receive pardon and the assurance that he 
pleased God. Such, we suppose, a fair exposition of this 
subject. But hear Cain as he is excluded from permission 
thus to come — My punishment is greater than I can bear, 
and his sin greater than could be forgiven ; he was not at 
liberty to approach that awful presence. 

We are told by very ancient annalists, fragments of 
whose writings are preserved, that Cain soon introduced 
the worship of the sun and moon and thus early set up 
idolatry. We are told in Seth's day, Then began men to 
call on the name of the Lord ; or as translated by Prof, 
McWhorter, of Yale College, Then began men to invoke 
or pray in the name of Yaveh, or the deliverer ; or as we 
would say, pray in the name of Christ. Again, we are told 
at a certain period of the distinction of the sons of God and 
the daughters of men. It should be borne in mind that two 
distinct brahches or lines of the race sprang from Abel and 
Seth as one line, and Cain on the other. That AbePs line 
for a considerable time maintained tlie patriarchal form of 



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government and the patriarchal order of worship. And 
13arallel with this line of pious Sethites was the line of 
idolatrous Cainites. And the sons of God were the pious 
sons of Seth, and the daughters of men the idolatrous 
daughters of Cain. Sanconiatho, an ancient Phoenician 
annalist, says Enoch forbid his sons mingling with those 
idolatrous women. 

The line of the patriarchs are said to have lived on the 
high table-lands of Armenia, but Caiu's descendants in the 
plains of the Euphrates, and that at one time 100 young 
men came dowm and apostatized, mingling with idolaters. 
Also by Berosus, a Chaldean annalist, as recorded by Dr. 
Hale^s Chronology, we are told that 1200 years before the 
flood in the line of Cain was established a universal 
monarchy, and we know that Laraech, one of his descend- 
ants, infringed the sacredness of the marriage relation and 
then violence and lawlessness prevailed. Still Enoch for 
three hundred years, from 1200 to 1500 years after the creation, 
walked with God and faithfully preached the truth, and 
Noah after him to the flood ; 2262 years, according to the best 
chronology, after the creation. The patriarchal trial had 
proved a failure so far as reforming and redeeming the race. 
But God vindicates his justice, when after such a lapse of 
time, only one family could be found that maintained their 
integrity and obeyed his commands ; they had broken 
down the guards which God had set to fence in virtue and 
fence out vice ; the sacred sanction of human life Cain had 
trampled underfoot; the sacredness of the marriage rela- 
tions had been infringed by Lamech, and now a universal 
monarchy established, breaking down at once the divinely 
established patriarchal form of civil government and 
religious worship — one family only not participating in the 
rebellion and anarchy ; one family only were saved amid 



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the general ruin. One more trial the race is granted under 
the patriarchal system, with some important lessons taught 
them. It could scarcely be doubted longer that God ruled 
among men, or that sin and rebelhon in his government 
was by him looked upon as a hienous crime, or that it led 
its votaries to ruin. On the other hand, that obedience to 
his commands and trust in his protection were profitable 
investmeuts. 

This second trial was scarcely more favorable than the 
first. As long as Noah and Shem lived, the worship of the 
true God and the patriarchal form of government w^ere 
maintained. But, according to Dr. Hale's Chronology and 
Smith's Patriarchal Age, 606 years after the flood Nimrod 
commenced his system of rebellion at Babylon, establishing 
a monarchy and sitting up idolatry and thus re-enacting the 
scenes of Cain's line before the flood. This first period after 
the flood doubtless found many a devout and humble 
worshipper of the true God in due form. The next period 
reaches from the confusion and dispersion to the first call 
of Abraham, while he was yet in Mesopotamia (between 
the rivers Euphrates and Tigris), when Abraham was sixty 
years old, 1100 years after the flood. During this period 
lived Job, or Jobab, the thirteenth son of Jaktan, 250 years 
before Abraham, on the northwest point of the Dead Sea, 
around the south end of which lie all those four provinces 
of the three friends of Job, and Elihu the Buzzite. The 
book of Job is one of the most important parts of God^s 
divine legacy in the inspired volume, as it shows us that 
the controversy of Job's day was the same as ever since and 
to-day, and will not be full^^ settled till the battle of Arma- 
geddon. The question in the book of Job is, is the religion 
God api>roves a natural product of the human soul, with 
natural rewards arid penalties and only natural support, 



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as held by Job's three friends, or was it a supernatural life, 
the creation of a supernatural agency, receiving sui^er- 
natural support after all natural resources were exhausted, 
and finally a supernatural reward, as held by Job and 
Elihu. The controversy has not changed from that hour 
to this. As suggested, that and all other religious contro- 
versies will be settled at the battle of Armageddon. How 
pleasing to read those full and clear announcements of the 
character and government of God in that book with such a 
strenuous advocacy of supernatural religion, with clear 
Christian experience as given by Job and Elihu, such trust 
in God and faith in Job's age, and in our living Redeemer. 
Just at the time when idolatry was sweeping away pure 
religion. Job said the worship of the sun and moon was a 
crime to be punished by the judges. But Job and Elihu 
are both dead and idolatry generally prevails. God now 
comes, 2,100 years B. C, and calls out Abraham from his 
country and his kindred, who were all idolaters, for 
Abraham's father was a statuary and made idol gods to 
sell, and those idols were kept in the family till Jacob's day, 
for when he left Padan Aram, Rachael stole her father's 
gods. Abraham leaves his country when sixty years old, 
goes to Haran, in the northern part of the country, 
remaining there fifteen years, till his father, Terah, died, 
who went with him, and then God's second call, when 
seventy-five years old, brings him to Canaan, when God 
gives to him and his posterity forever all of that land. God 
now makes Abraham and his posterity the depositaries of 
those sacred interests in trust for the race, holding them 
responsible for their maintainance and transmission. The 
time had not yet come for Abraham and seed to take pos- 
session of that country, for the season of probation of the 
present occupants had not expired, *'The iniquity of the 



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Ammorites was not yet full." So God told Abraham that 
his seed should be sent into bondage, and at the i)roper time 
he would bring them out with great substance and restore 
them to that land and make them as the stars of heaven for 
multitude. "And the nation to whom they shall be in 
bondage (the Egyptians) will I judge, said God." God now 
gives Abraham the covenant of circumcision, a flesh mark 
to designate his posterity, and renews to them the covenant 
to give them that land, and promises that through his seed 
all nations should be blessed. God now gives Abraham 
Isaac, the heir of promise. Then to test aud publish his 
supernatural faith and sliow in bold outline character his 
hidden life, he bid him offer him up as a burnt offering on 
one of the mountains to which he would lead him — on Mt. 
Moriah. Abraham and Isaac, with some servants, start for 
the scene. Arriving within a short distance, he said to the 
servants. Stay ye here while I go yonder and worship. 

This is one of the inost sublime scenes on record. 
Abraham's faith has never been exceeded. But just as the 
scene is at its height an angel arrests the hand. Isaac 
returns with his father, after they had offered the lamb 
caught in the thicket as a sacrifice to God, he testifying to 
Abraham's fidelity, and his approbation of his course. 

Let it be understood, and remembered, that the four 
hundred and thirty years sojourn spoken of by Moses, at 
the end of which — on the self same day — Israel came out 
of Egypt, commenced at the second call of Abraham, when 
he was seventy-live years old. And then, two hundred and 
fifteen years after, to a day, Israel came down into Egypt ; 
and two hundred and fifteen years after, Israel came out, on 
the self same day. Jacob had been to Padan Aram. Sarah 
and Abraham were both dead. Isaac now is still dwelling 
in the land when Jacob returns^ but dies ^-t one hundred 



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and eighty years of age, when Jacob and Esau meet at his 
burial for the last time. Joseph is sold into Egypt nine 
years after the return from Padan Aram, when seventeen 
years old. They all go down to Egypt, Jacob and all his 
family, for Joseph is governor of Egypt at that time. 
Those dreams were fulfilled : the sun and moon and eleven 
stars had done obeisance to Joseph's sheaf. Moses is born 
eighty years before the close of the captivity ; lives in Pha- 
raoh's palace till forty years old ; goes out to visit his breth- 
ren, kills an Egyx)tian, is hunted by Pharaoh ; flees to 
Midian, remaining there forty years, is sent to deliver his 
brethren from bondage. Then followed the plagues of 
Egypt, the passage of the Red Sea, with the journey in the 
wilderness, the pillar of cloud by day and fire by night, till 
they reached their final home in Canaan. Moses' death 
and Joshua's leadership, with the wars that followed, can 
all be read from the Bible. All and each step is part of an 
administration, revealing more and more fully the char- 
acter of the God of Abraham. Here is shown the second 
time the great deliverer promised in the garden, then again 
in the overthrow of the Canaanite nations. But Israel is 
now settled in the land given to Abraham and his seed, for 
an everlasting possession. But, as before said, while the 
original grant had in it no conditions, the continued pos- 
session, or occupancy, was suspended upon obedience to 
the commandments given by Moses. But they are fairly 
in their own land, all settled, each in their own inherit- 
ance, and Joshua dead and gone to his reward. And the 
children of Israel served God during Joshua's life and 
all that generation that outlived Joshua. Then comes the 
most stormy time of Israel's history — " about four hundred 
and fifty years until Samuel the prophet" — so says Paul. 
And during a large portion of that time they Avere dread- 



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fully oppressed and held in abjectbondageby the Syrians of 
Mesopotamia, and the Ammonites and Moabites, by the 
Midianites and Philistines and the Canaanites, all of whom 
took part in their oppression during the troublesome times 
of the Judges, besides two seasons of dreadful civil wars, and 
a scene of anarchy in the which to close up, as they had no 
king, every man did that which was right in his own eyes. 
And in this condition Samuel found them. They im- 
proved during his administration. Then follows the Regal 
State, under Saul, David and Solomon, forty years each, 
commencing 1,110 B. C, and ending 990 B. C. There was 
Some religious improvement during Saul's reign, as Samuel 
lived till within two years of Saul's death, and Samuel's 
influence on the nation was very great and very beneficent. 
Also Saul's reign was an advance of the Judges. But David 
succeeded to Saul for forty years, during David's reign all 
the enemies were met and subdued, and though it was a 
time of continued war, it prepared the way for the peaceful 
reign that followed. During his reign the worship of the 
true God was the purest of any season or period of Jewish 
history. Solomon succeeded 1,030 B. C. His reign was 
one of almost unparalleled prosperity and grandeur. Few 
kings or nations ever arose to a higher state of prosperity 
and glory, and no king, before or since, ever possessed 
such a fund of wisdom as Solomon. The temple he 
built to the God of Israel has immortalized his name 
throughout all christianized lands. Still Solomon encour- 
aged his wives to worship idols. Solomon died 990 B. C, 
and Rehoboam, his son, succeeded him. But during his 
lifetime God told Abijah, the prophet, to annoint Jero- 
boam, the son of Nebat, king over ten of the twelve tribes. 
Jeroboam was Solomon's servant, and he sought to kill 
him after Abijah had annointed him. So he fled to Egypt. 



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Then, when Solomon died, the Jews sent and brought him 
to Jerusalem. Then all came to Shekem to make Relio- 
boam king over Israel, and they proposed that he make 
his reign a milder one than his father's. He answered 
them : Go, and come again in three days. They did so. 
During the interval Rehoboam had first consulted with 
the old men, and then with the young men. The old men 
advised him to adopt mild measures, but the young men 
advised to treat the Jews harshly. He followed the advice 
of the young men, and gave the answer accordingly. This 
created a division of the twelve tribes, of ten tribes consti- 
tuting the kingdom of Israel, over which Jeroboam, the 
son of Nebat, had been annointed by Abijah. The other 
division constituted the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, 
who constituted the kingdom of Judah, over which 
Rehoboam, Solomon's son, reigned. Thus, 990 B. C, 
there were two kingdoms, Judah and Israel. They are 
now both, in a special manner, probationers, having in 
charge those sacred trusts for the race, to maintain and 
transmit, and held responsible. The kingdom of Israel 
lasted 229 years, and led off by its first king, Jeroboam, the 
son of Nebat, who made the two golden calves and set up 
one at Bethel, on the south border of his kingdom, and the 
other at Canaan, the north border, and made the children 
of Israel worship them ; then built a new temple and estab- 
lished a regular system of worship, weaningthem from the 
worship of the true God at Jerusalem. After that the wor- 
ship of God was scarcely known in the kingdom of Israel. 
The peculiarly favorable location of Israel as a nation 
ought to be considered. If you take a map of the ancient 
world you will see what Moses and Paul mean. Moses 
says, **When the Almighty divided to the nations their 
inheritance, he set the bounds of the people according to 



24 ScRiPTUKE Pkophecy. 

the number of the chikireu of IsraeL" Paul takes up the 
same thought in his address to the Athenians, and says, 
'' God has made of one blood all the nations of men to dwell 
on all the face of the earth, and hath before determined the 
bounds of their habitation, that men might seek after God, 
if haply they might feel after him and find him.'' 

Now think of Israel placed in the center of that ancient 
world of bible lands, with those great interests and truths 
in trast for the race ("which is eternal life,'' said 
Jesus) ; and then on the south the great kingdom of 
Egypt, with which she had constant intercourse, and 
know three great thoroughfares led from Egypt — one 
by the borders of the Mediterranean Sea to Gerar, 
Gath, Gaza, Hebron, Jerusalem, on to Tyre and Sidon ; 
another from Egypt through Edom and Petra, Arabia, 
doubling the west point of the Dead Sea to Jerusa- 
lem, thence northeast 150 miles to Damascus, thence 100 
miles direct north to Hamath the Great, the capital of the 
Phoenecians ; the other route, the one Israel traveled, by 
the way of the Red Sea. Then consider that there were 
also three routes from east to west, from those three seaport 
towns, Joppa, Sidon and Tyre — east through that holy land 
to Babylon, Persia, Arabia, etc. Then remember that vast 
caravans of commerce and travel were passing constantly 
on these routes through that holy land and thence to the 
ends of the earth ; and then see what afar-reaching plan, 
when any great thoughts to affect and benefit the race 
found in that land would be carried to the ends of the earth. 

Now, we have said the Jews were put in possession of 
those great interests and truths with which to bless the 
world. God bore with the kingdom of Israel, as said, 229 
years. But he told the wife of Jeroboam, the first king, he 
would destroy them. 1st Kings, 14th chapter, 15th verse, 



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For the Lord shall smite Lsrael as a reed is shaken in the 
water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good laTid 
which he gave to their fathers and shall scatter them beyond 
the river, because they have made their groves, x)rovoking 
the Lord to anger. And he shall give Israel up because of 
the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and he made Israel to 
sin. Here is a prophecy regarding the destruction of the 
kingdom of Israel. Let me just say here, and don't forget 
it, there are ^ve specific classes of pro^Dhecy regarding the 
Jews. One as thus given regarding the dispersion of the 
ten tribes, one regarding the captivity of Judah to Babylon, 
one regarding the restoration of Judah after seventy years, 
one regarding their final dispersion of the kingdom of 
Judah by the Romans, and one regarding the final gather- 
ing of both kingdoms on the mountains of Israel and 
making them one nation, to remain forever more. 

The prophecy regarding the kingdom of Israel was 
fulfilled 721 B. C, when Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 
carried them into the cities of the Medes and settled 
them on the river Gozan. See 2d Kings, 17th chax)ter, 
6th verse. Since that time the ten tribes are not known 
where they are. We say the ten lost tribes. 

The kingdom of Judah was blessed w^ith many most 
excellent kings, and maintained the worshipof God in much 
of its i^urity a good part of their existence as a nation, but 
some of their kings were very wicked and the nation failed 
to meet their responsibility and carry out that divine plan 
to bless the world, and God told the prophets to tell the 
peoi^le he would carry them to Babylon, which he 
did 606 B. C, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of 
Babylon. See Jeremiah, 39th chapter. So then the Jews 
are in Babylon and the second class of prophecies is ful- 
filled. Seventy years are they to remain in Babylon, till 
the very end of their (the Babylonian's) land shall come. 



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See again the illustration of one of those foundation 
principles. The power is now taken out of the hands of the 
Jews and put into the hands of the Gentiles 606 B. C. 
Now, as we said of the kingdom of Israel, that since 721 
B. C. to the present time they have been lost, so now 
we say of Judah, from 606 B. C. to the present time 
Judah has never again possessed the sovereign power, nor 
till after the battle of Armageddon. God now, for the failure 
of the Jews as Abraham's descendants to fulfill his will, 
and for their unfaithfulness to their trusts, as the patriarchal 
trial had failed, and now the Jews had failed, God proposes 
to try the Gentiles. 

At this point in the body of the work we stop to con- 
sider the nations that surrounded the Israelites while in 
their own land, and more or less mingled with them and 
might have been benefitted by their position, enjoying or 
abusing their day of probation. We go back to the earliest 
times after the flood, trace the origin and brief history of 
the following nations separately, showing their connection 
with the family of Noah — trace briefly their history down 
to 606, where we are stopped, then introduce the prophecies 
regarding them ; then from that point trace out and show 
how those prophecies have been fulfilled in the destruction- 
of those powers and the desolation of those countries to 
the present time. 

Those nations thus traced are Assyria, Babylon , Egypt, 
Idumea, Ammon, Moab, Philistia and Tyre. It will be 
impossible to give even the briefest outline of these nations 
in these lectures, but they will be found in the work. The 
restoration of the Jews to their own land, after the cap- 
tivity, is found in Ezra and Nehemiah. When God trans- 
ferred the sovereign power to Babylon, as shoAvn, he also 
transferred with it his supernatural presence. But, as he 



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restored the Jews to Jerusalem, after seventy years of cap- 
tivity, he then returned with his spiritual presence to 
Jerusalem. See Zechariah, ch. 1 : 16, Therefore, thus saith 
the Lord : I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies ; my 
house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts, and a line 
shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. 2: 10, Sing and 
rejoice, O daughter of Zion : for lo, I am come, and I will 
dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord. Jerusalem 
again became the religious center of the world, and con- 
tinued the depository of the Oracles of God, till Paul and 
Barnabas, sent of God to first offer them the gospel, when 
they rejected it, and Paul said, It was needful that the 
gospel should first be preached to you ; but seeing ye count 
yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, Lo, we turn to the 
Gentiles, for so hath God commanded. From that time the 
gospel, as a sacred trust, has been in the hands of the Gen- 
tiles. And I think their probation is nearly closed. As 
we all know, A. D. 70, the Jews were finally dis- 
persed into all nations, and Jerusalem is trodden down 
of the Gentiles, and to continue till the times of the 
Gentiles be fulfilled. The prophecies regarding their 
final and long dispersion, their sufferings, anxiety and 
wrongrs, are found in Deuteronomy, ch. 28, written 3,500 
years ago by Moses, who never went into the promised 
land. That chapter is a fac simile of their sufferings and 
their wrongs. Every student of prophecy ought to become 
familiar with it. One, and only one, class of prophecies 
regarding the Jews, remains to be fulfilled : that class 
regarding their final restoration to their own land and to 
David, their king, in the latter day. 



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LECTURE SECOND, 



Four Gentile Sovereign Powers to Rule the World till the Battle of 

Armageddon. 

I^NE of our foundation principles will, at this point, be 
^ remembered : That God has never failed to have a sov- 
ereign representative administration on earth, symbolizing 
his Divine authority. And we have already shown that, 
606 B. C, He took that power out of the hands of the 
Jews, and put it into the hands of the Gentiles. Nebuchad- 
nezzar, king of Babylon, was thinking on his bed what 
should come to pass after he was gone. And God conde- 
scended to reveal to him things that should come to pass 
hereafter. So says Daniel. In his dreamj he had a vision 
that troubled him; but in the morning he had forgotten 
every word, and then he demanded of the wise men of 
Babylon — astrologers, soothsayers and magicians — to re- 
produce the dream, and tell the interpretation of it. But 
they told him no one could do that except the gods, whose 
dwellings were not with men. He answered, if they would 
not do it, all the wise men should be destroyed. And, as 
they acknowledged they could not do it, the decree went 
forth to destroy all the wise men of Babylon ; and, as 
Daniel and the three worthies belonged to the wise men, 
they were sought to be slain with the rest. When the 
officer came to Daniel to execute the king's commands, he 
said to the officer : Why is the king's command so hasty ? 
The officer then brings Daniel before the king. He then 
asks of the king time, telling the king that the astrologers 



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and wise men of Babylon could not do what he had 
asked of them, but there was a God in Heaven who revealed 
secrets, and, perhaps, might make known to the king 
Nebuchadnezzar what he desired. So the king suspended 
the execution of the sentence of death upon the wise men 
of Babylon to give Daniel time. Daniel then engaged with 
him the three worthies to pray to God to reveal the secret. 
God gave Daniel and his friends a favorable answer. 
When Daniel was brought in before the king, he tells the 
king that the God of Heaven had given him a Kingdom, 
power and strength, and glory, and hath revealed to the 
king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days ; 
and wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of 
the field and the fowls of heaven hath he given into thine 
hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou, O 
king, sawest, and behold a great image, whose brightness 
was excellent, stood before thee, and the form thereof was 
terrible. This image's head was of fine gold ; his arms and 
breast of. silver ; his belly and thighs of brass ; his legs of 
iron; his feet of iron and clay. Thou sawest till that a 
stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image 
upon his feet, that were of iron and clay, and break them 
to pieces. Then was the iron and the clay, the brass, the 
silver and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became 
like the cliaflT of the summer's threshing floor ; and the 
wind carried them away, so that no place was found for 
them ; and the stone that smote the image became a great 
mountain, and filled the whole earth. This is the dream, 
said Daniel, and I will tell the king the interpretation 
thereof: Thou, O king, art a king of kings. Thou art that 
head of gold. After thee shall arise another kingdom, in- 
ferior to thee; and another third kingdom of brass that 
shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom 



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shall be strong as iron, and as iron shall it break in pieces 
all these (three former kingdoms) ; shall it break in pieces 
and bruise. And as the (ten) toes of the feet were part of 
iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be jmrtly strong 
and partly broken. Here, then, is symbolized four great 
Gentile sovereign monarchies, to rule the world till the 
times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And in the days of these 
kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom, which 
shall never be destroyed. (Daniel has just told the king 
that all four of those kingdoms were to be destro^^ed, and 
driven away.) And the kingdom shall not be left to other 
people, but it shall break in pieces all these kingdoms, and 
it shall stand forever. Nothing can be clearer or plainer 
than this symbolic representation of five great universal 
monarchies, to bear rule over the whole earth, commencing 
at 606 B. C: that the first four are, each in turn, to be sub- 
dued, and succeeded by its immediate successor ; and then 
all four are to be subdued by the fifth, and that fifth only 
to become a permanent kingdom, set up by the God of 
Heaven, while all the preceding are announced as pur- 
posely transient; and that this fifth and last is symbol- 
ized by the stone or rock cut out of the mountain without 
hands. Let it be remembered, this is an inspired interpre- 
tation of these symbols. In Daniel, chai^ter 7th, Daniel 
had a vision in the first year of Belshazzar's reign ; this 
would be in the forty-ninth of the captivity, as Nebuchad- 
nezzar reigned forty-three years. Evil Merodack, his son, 
five years, and Belshazzar, who married his granddaughter, 
five years, making fifty-three years to Belshazzar's death, 
and seventeen years before the close of the captivity — when 
the kingdom was given to Darius, the Mede — but still ruled 
by a Babylonian nobla, who, at last* with the Babylonians, 
jevo.Ued, which|brought against them the combined forces 



32 Scripture Prophecy. 



of Meciia aud Persia, with Cyrus as leader. The same four 
great monarchies Avere shown to Daniel as four great beasts 
coming up out of the sea of political strife. 

DauiePs first beast was a lion with eagle's wiugs ; the 
second a bear, with three ribs in its mouth ; the third, a 
leopard, and the fourth, dreadful and terrible and strong 
exceedingly, and Imd great iron teeth, and tore everything 
to pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet; and it 
had ten horns. Then another came up among the ten and 
plucked up three of the first horns by the roots. This horn 
had eyes like a man, and a mouth speaking great things. 
I beheld, says Daniel, and the same horn made war with 
the saints, and prevailed against them till the time came 
that the saints possessed the kingdom, or till the S013 of 
man receives his kingdom of the Ancient of Days. 

Again, Daniel had a second vision, in the 8th chaj^ter : 
Aram with two horns, both high, one higher than the 
other, and the higher coming up last ; and then an he 
goat, with a great horn between his eyes, that, broken, he 
had four in its place ; then out of one of the four came a 
little horn to be finally broken without hand. Then 
Gabriel comes forward to give us the interpretation : The 
two-horned ram is the kingdom of Media and Persia ; the 
goat, the kingdom of Greece; the great horn, Alexander; 
then four smaller kingdoms; then the little horn, coming 
out of one of them, a king of fierce countenance, under- 
standing dark sentences, coming in the time of the later 
Grecian kingdom, when the transgressions had come to the 
full. But finally the kingdom and the greatness of the 
kingdom under the whole heaven is to be given to the peo- 
ple of the saints of the Most High. 

The first of these four kingdoms symbolized in these 
visions was Babylon. T^he symbols of that power are the 



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head of gold in the image, and the lion with the eagle's 
wings in Daniel's first vision, chapter 7 ; Babylon was a 
sovereign power when Daniel wrote, consequently in pro- 
phetic language, a kingdom. The city and kingdom of 
Babylon lasted till the close of the captivity of seventy 
years from 606 B. C. Then was by C^^rus, (at the head of 
the combined forces of Media and Persia, with all those sur- 
rounding nations who had followed the standard of 
Nebuchadnezzar,) combined against them the Lydians, 
the Hyrcanians and the Armenians. Cyrus for two 
years besieged and surrounded the city, but accord- 
ing to the prophet the Babylonians would not fight ; 
they laughed at his efforts and shot darts at his sol- 
diers from the toj) of their walls, thirty-six feet thick 
and 100 feet high. They had provisions for a twenty 
year's siege, and a vast area to cultivate, besides those 
hanging gardens, and how could such a city be taken ? 
Cyrus learned by some deserters that at a certain time they 
were to have a great feast, at which time they gave them- 
selves up to revelry and drunkenness, and by some hint 
prepared to take advantage of the occasion. Some suppose 
he had read the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah con- 
cerning the fall of Babylon. The Euphrates river ran 
through the city from north to south, and on each side of 
the river were solid walls with twenty-five brass gates, as 
there were twenty-five streets crossing the city at right an- 
gles. God had called Cyrus by name one hundred and thirty 
years before this by Isaiah the prophet, and told him he 
would leave open these •gates, Isaiah 45. 1 : I will loose 
before him the loins of kings to open before him the two 
barred gates, and the gates shall not be shut. This subject 
is fully drawn out in the article on Babylon in the main 
work. Cyrus now to avail himself of the benefit of this 
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34 Scripture Prophecy. 

prophecy, divides his army into three divisions. He sends 
one of them above the city to drain the river into an artificial 
lake made long before for the same purpose when those 
walls were built ; then he stationed another third of his 
army where the river ran into the city, and with the other 
division went below, ordering both divisions as soon as the 
river was fordable to enter the city, march to the palace 
and take it, which was done, and the city was taken 536 B 
C. Then was that prophecy fulfilled that one post (boy) 
run to meet another (at the palace) to tell the king of 
Babylon that his city was taken at one end, and as he 
learned by the two messengers, it was taken at both ends. 
Thus the first of those four great sovereign powers is broken, 
never to rise again. And the second now assumes universal 
sovereignty, and in prophetic language becomes a king- 
dom. 

THE SECOND POWER— MEDO-PERSIA. 

The symbols of this second power are the arms and 
breast of silver in the image, the bear with three ribs in 
the mouth of it and between the teeth of it ; .and the ram 
with two horns. The two arms, as the two horns, sym- 
bolize the two combined powers ; so also there is a special 
significance in the symbol of the ram^s horns; for the 
symbol of the Persian power was a ram's head of gold, 
with golden horns ; so says the angel, The two horns are 
the two kings of Media and Persia. This power, as already 
seen, commenced in 536 B. C, and lasted till about 330 B. 
C, or 200 years, when the third power arose. The symbols 
of the third power were the belly and the thighs of brass in 
the image ; the leopard in the first vision of Daniel, and 
the goat in the second. The goat, said Gabriel, is the king 
(or power) of Greece, and the great horn is the first king. 
These symbols are significant, for the third kingdom was 



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to be a brass kingdom, and bear rule over all the earth. 
From the earliest times the Greeks wore brazen armor ; so 
were called the brazen-coated Greeks. Again, they were 
called the goat people, from the fact that when a colony of 
Greeks went out to settle Macedon, the Grecian Oracle 
bade them take the goats as their guide ; and from that 
i time were denominated the goat people. And Alexander 
named his son by his favorite wife Roxana, Alexander 
^gus — Alexander, goat. The great horn is the first king. 
Daniel says, chapter 8th, he saw that ram with two horns 
pushing northward, southward and eastward, and that no 
beast might stand before him, but he did according to his 
will and became great ; and as I was considering, the goat 
came from the west. In a former time Xerxes the king 
of Persia, "stirred up all against the realm of Grecia." 
It is said Xerxes invaded Greece with five millions of peo- 
ple, but was met at Thermopylae by the three hundred 
Spartans who so nobly perished |in defense of their coun- 
try as to stagger the Persians, who were defeated, and 
Xerxes returned home in disgrace. But now Alexander 
comes to avenge that quarrel, and while the Medo-Persian 
I ram was standing before the river the goat ran to him in 
I the fury of his power. Artaxerxes Longimanus, the last 
I Persian king of that ancient dynasty, was standing on the 
I east side of the river Granacus, in Asia, with a million of 
I warriors and attendants, when Alexander, with thirty- 
I four thousand Grecians, came from the west. 

Philip, king of Macedon, dying left his kingdom to 
his son Alexander, when he became the king of Macedon, 
and then at the Phyctionic Council of all Greece he got 
j himself appointed as Generalissimo of the whole Grecian 
forces to carry on the war against Persia. And not, per- 
haps, in the range of language, is a more graphic description 



3G Scripture Prophecy. 



than Daniel gives of the movement of the goat, in three 
verses : '^ He touched not the ground, he came so swiftly 
and moved with wrath ; he ran to him in the fury of his 
power, he came close to him, and break his two horns and 
cast him down to the ground and stamped upon him and 
no power could deliver the ram out of his hands." Alex- 
ander came with 34,000 Grecians, found Artaxerxes on the 
east side of the river, plunged into the river and swam 
across with his army, attacked him with terrible fury and 
scattered his forces. The Persian king, with great precipi- 
tation, fled, and Alexander in pursuit, who pursued the 
Persian monarch eleven days, at the rate of forty miles per 
day, overtook him in the mountain i^asses, had with him 
another battle when a second time his forces were scattered 
and the king fled, and the third time was pursued and 
overtaken at a place called Issus, where a third battle 
annihilated his army, or broke his two horns, when himself 
fled to one of his courtiers, who betrayed and assassinated 
him, when the second power became extinct, not to be 
heard of again as a sovereign j)ower. 

Then Alexander pursued his victorious course and, as 
it is said, conquered the world. Daniel says he became 
great, and then the great horn was br^)ken. Btrange as it 
seems to us, yet it is true, that Alexander had conquered 
Babylon and its provinces, as the last power to oppose him; 
still he gave himself up to luxury and debauch. And 
Henophen, his historian, tells us that after a long series of 
debauch with his courtiers, on a certain occasi n, one night 
he bid a challenge to any of them to match him drinking 
the health of Hercules, the Grecian god. He ordered a 
bow^l filled with wine holding three quarts, which he drank 
at a draught ; again about midnight he ordered it and drank 
about half of it and fell down, was carried to his lodgings 



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and died in a few days. Thus the great liorn was brol^en 
and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds 
of heaven. It is a most remarkable fact that while Alex- 
ander had thirty-four generals in his army his whole 
empire was divided between four of them, Lj^simachus, 
Cassander, Seleucus and Nicator, and the kingdoms were 
Macedon, Thrace, Syria and Egypt. And out of one of 
them came forth a little horn that waxed exceeding great, 
toward the south, toward the east, and toward the 
pleasant land. At this point Daniel was perplexed, and 
one spoke and said, "Gabriel, make this man understand 
the vision ;'^ and in his explanation he transmutes the little 
horn of this third beast into a king of fierce countenance, 
understanding dark sentences, and that he will come when 
the transgressions are come to the full. On no i)oint has 
there been more mistakes than on the little horn of the 
third beast, and the little horn of the fourth beast. They 
have been confounded by such men as Dr. Hales and Bishop 
Newton. But it will be seen that there is a significance 
and importance attached to them that is entirely lost, when 
thus confounded. We shall, therefore, trace out the little 
horn of the third beast before we speak of the fourth beast. 
The reader's attention will now have to be transferred from 
the old to the new testament — from Daniel to John. 

In the book of Kevelations there are the symbols of 
seven seals in chapter 6, seven trumpets in chapters 8 and 
9 ; in the 8th chapter are four war trumpets, and in the 
last verse of that chapter, after those four trumpets had 
sounded, one archangel flying through heaven cries with a 
loud voice, saying. Woe, woe, woe to the inhabiters of earth, 
by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three 
angels which are yet to sound. 

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38 Scripture Prophecy. 

principles laid down at the commencement was, God 
holds every man, family and nation, responsible moral 
agents, on probation, and deals with them according to 
their faithfulness or unfaithfulness ; and rewards or ]3un- 
ishes accordingly. The Roman government had been 
on probation for about twelve hundred years from its com- 
mencement, and five since the gospel was given to it, it 
had persecuted Christ and his people, and now four bar- 
baric nations had been commissioned to divide it into ten 
kingdoms, at the sounding of the four war trumpets, and 
immediately following this— which was completed about 
A. D. 550 — we hear the cry of woe, woe, woe, by reason of 
three war trumpets, and then in the ninth chapter, we are 
told : And the fifth angel sounded, (this is the first woe 
trumpet) and a star falls from heaven to earth— stars are 
symbols of civil or military officers. This was Chosecos 
king of Persia overcome and slain by Hiraclius, Roman 
emperor. Chosecos was a bright star in the political 
heavens, in the fore part of the 6th century of the Chris- 
tian era. After his fall the Arabians, who had been subject 
to him, were releas*>(i ; and so we are told he opened the 
bottomless pit, and smoke comes out — political or religious 
confusion or obscurity, is thus symbolized. And then 
locusts came out ; Arabia is the natural^'home of the locust. 
The smoke was so dense that it darkened the sun. Let me 
say to you here, this scene represents Mahomet and his 
Saracenic followers ; and while Mahomet had traveled 
much and had found everywhere he had been, in all forms 
of religion, universal idolatry connected with the basest 
corruption of life and profligacy of manners, for indeed the 
transgressions had come to the full, as in both the Catho- 
lic and Greecian churches was universal idolatry and un- 
blushing corruption. Mahomet now assumes that God 



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had commissioned him to reform the religion of mankind 
as his prophet. He then commenced to write the Koran or 
Mahometan bible ; as Gibbon says, full of dark and con- 
fused and contradictory passages ; or as Gabriel calls them, 
dark sayings ; and he came just at the time predicted, A. 
T>, 622, when the transgressions in the professed Christian 
church, when almost all the old idolatries of the ancient 
Pagan world were transferred into particularly the Catholic 
church. Mahomet commenced by using mild means 
and motives till he had quite a number of followers ; all he 
ever accomplished in his life time was to conquer and con- 
vert his own nation ; so Gabriel says, his power shall be 
mighty, but not by his own power. After gaining a num- 
ber of converts he assumed that God had bidden him to 
propagate his religion by the sword, and says Gabriel, a 
king of fierce countenance shall rise. Says Gibbon, he 
then assumed a fierce tone (are they the same ?). Gabriel 
said he should stand up against the Prince of Princes. He 
assumed that God had sent four prophets in different ages 
to reform the world, and that they arose in dignity accord- 
ing to the order in which they were sent. Abraham, 
Moses, Jesus Christ and himself, thus putting himselt 
above Christ. His Locust followers had power to hurt like 
scorpions, the terrible cruelty of the Mahometans has been 
proverbial. And they had stings in their tails, in the false 
doctrine they enjoined. They had crowns of gold; they 
wore yellow shawls around their heads ; they had hair as 
the hair of women — long hair which they all wear ; faces 
as the faces of men, just what they were; and the sound 
of their wings was as the sound of horsemen running to 
battle, just what they were, Arabian horsemen running to 
battle. And they had over them a king whose name in 
the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue is 
his name Apolyon, both names meaning destroyer. 



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Lastly, they were prepared to torment men five months 
of prophetic time. A day for a year ; or, according to the 
ancient computation of time, five months of thirty days to 
a month, or one hundred and fifty years ; so the Saracens 
made all their conquests in just one hundred and fifty 
years, and then built Bagdad, a city, on the Tigris river, 
and called it the City of Peace. From that time they settled 
themselves into peaceful habitations, and their power soon 
waned away. And so, as the angel said, were broken with- 
out hand. No sooner had the Saracens retired from their 
war-like depredations than another people came from the 
eastern world and settled quietly in their midst ; these were 
the four broken fragments of the Turkomans, a very ancient 
people, descended from the ancient Scythians — afterwards 
called Tartars — afterwards called Turkomans, or Ottomans. 
They settled at Damascus, Aleppo, and other cities on or 
in the regions of the Euphrates; and, mingling with the 
Saracens, they adopted their religion — the Mahometan — 
and so became, in a sense, one people. The high priest of 
Mahometanism had his seat at Bagdad, on the Tigris river; 
his subjects revolted, and he called to his assistance a chief 
of the Turks to quiet the insurrection — repeatedly was this 
done. We are now prepared to hear the sixth trumpet, 
and the second woe trumpet, sound. Let us then turn to 
the 9th chapter of Revelation, and, in the 12th verse, we 
hear the angel say: One woe is past; and, behold, there 
come two woes more thereafter. And the sixth angel 
sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the 
golden altar, which is before God, saying to the sixth 
angel, which had the trumpet — Loose the four angels who 
are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four 
angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, a day, 
and a month, and a year, to slay a third part of men ; and 



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the nuraber of the army of the horsemen were two hundred 
thousand thousand, and I heard the numbers of them. 
These are the Turks. Four Turkish chiefs settled in the 
regions of the Euphrates, in the tenth century, combined 
and appointed Teegral Bey, one of their number, as leader, 
constituting the Ottoman or Turkish empire. Then the 
high priests of Mahometanism crowned him, and then put 
into his hand the great sword of Mahomet, and constituted 
him the defender of the Mahometan faith, and a continu- 
ance of the little horn of the third beast. The description 
of these Turks varies from the description of the Saracens, 
just as their characters differ ; they are each horsemen, and 
had horses ; so, in this vision, John says he saw the horse- 
men in the vision, and them that sat on them having breast- 
plates of fire, and smoke and brimstone ; and by these three 
were the third part of men killed by the fire and smoke and 
brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. The Turks 
were the first people in the world to use fire arms or guns ; 
and for one standing off and seeing those horsemen shoot- 
ing, as they rode those swift horses, it would look as if the 
fire and smoke and brimstone came out of the horses' 
mouths. But we are told that, notwithstanding two woes 
had now been exioended on idolatrous people, yet they re- 
repented not. These Turks were x)repared for an hour — as 
this, the twenty-fourth part of a day, as a day for a year, 
it would be fifteen days ; a day — prophetic time, is one 
year ; a month— 30 days, then 30 years ; and a year — 360 
days or years : then the Turks were prepared to slay men, or 
make their conquests 391 years and fifteen days. They com- 
menced their conquests 1281, and ended them in 1672— just 
391 years afterwards. In the year 1672 they took Caminac, 
aud fifty-two other cities fell into their hands. In 1453 they 
killed the Grecian empire, and took Constantinople, its 



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capital. Omar, the third Caliph after Mahomet, built his 
mosque or Mahometan place of worship on the site of 
Solomon's temple. From 1672 to 1820, about 150 years, 
there was no essential change taking place in the Turkish 
empire— so that Sir Walter Scott says : At the beginning 
of 1820 the Turkish empire, by fortuitous concurrence of 
circumstances, found itself at once freed from domestic 
insurrection and foreign invasion. Now we have traced 
the little horn of the third beast down to 1820. One single 
verse of scripture gives us its destruction : Revelations, 
16 : 12. And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the 
great river Euphrates, that its waters may be dried up, that 
the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. 

At the beginning of 1820 the Turkish empire found 
itself at once freed from domestic insurrection and foreign 
invasion (Sir Walter Scott). But an angel had been com- 
manded to pour out on it a vial of wrath, and so, in or 
during 1820, Ali Pasha, a sub-governor of Turkey, with 
2,000,000 of Turkish subjects, revolted, struggled for his 
independence. Soon the war going on between Russia and 
Turkey closed, and the whole force of the Turkish power 
was brought to bear against Ali Pasha. But suddenly the 
Turkish commander-in-chief died and the Turkish army 
were demoralized, when Ali and his three sons made a des- 
perate effort to be free, but after struggling three years, Ali 
Pasha and his three sons were slain and his insurrection 
quelled. In 1821, Theodore, a native of Bulgaria, revolted at 
the head of 10,000 insurgents in Wallachia, and Prince Ypsi- 
lanti in the same year in Wallachia. In 1822 the Pasha of 
Egypt revolted and gained his independence, severing from 
Turkey a vast portion of her territory. In 1823 the Greeks 
revolted — vast numbers of Greek soldiers had been in the 
army of Ali Pasha, but soon they left his army and went 



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home, and as the historian says, in 1823 insurrection broke 
out in every part of Greece. The Greeks fought bravely, 
but the Turk called in the Pasha of Egypt to his assistance 
and there was every appearance that Greece would once 
more be crushed under the iron heel of Turkey, when 
France and England aided Greece to gain her independence 
in 1826. So insurrection followed insurrection until Turkey 
presented a scene of continual disorder. But the alarm 
was raised to its height at the news of the insurrection of 
Greece. *' At the insurrection of Greece,'^ says one writer, 
*' the revolt spread far to the north, and Thessaly, ^tolia, 
Acarnania and Epirus were in a state of insurrection. ' ' At 
the time of Ali Pasha's revolt, or in 1821, two armies 
invaded Turkey from Persia on the east, one designated to 
Bagdad, on the Tigris, the other to Erzeroum, on the Black 
sea. This year also is noted for the fatal extinction of the 
Mamelukes. This same year the Prince Royal of Persia 
marched a strong body of troops into the province of Nan, 
on the Euphrates, on the road to Constantinople, when he 
was arrested by the cholera morbus, which broke out in the 
army. Again in 1822 the prince made another invasion 
with 30,000 men, crossing into Turkey in July. " He 
completely defeated an army of 50,000 Turks, who fled in 
disorder from the field. He followed up his success and 
marched within two days march of Erzeroum, but the 
cholera morbus again arrested his march.'' In the same 
month, July 22, says Mr. Kieth, *' a physical calamity came' 
to consummate the disorder of the empire. An earthquake at 
Aleppo, the capital of Syria, buried 14,000 of its inhabitants 
under its ruins, and Antioch suffered scarcely less, while the 
shock was felt in nearly all the towns of Syria. Of an army 
of Turks that attack and invaded Greece in 1822, of 35,000 
men 25,000 were left dead on the field. In 1825 about 25,000 



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Janizaries, Turkish soldiers, revolted; they were coyedinto 
their barracks and surrounded by 60,000 Turkish troops, 
and soldiers and the barracks were consumed in the flames, 
after pouring into them incessantly a murderous discharge 
of grape shot. And says the writer, ''The fire slackened 
and silenced, the flames were extinguished of themselves, 
and next morning presented a frightful scene — burning 
ruins slacked in blood, a huge mass of mangled flesh and 
smoky ashes.'' In 1827 we flnd France, England and 
Russia united against Turkey, and in a naval battle in 
which these were all allied against Turkey, at Navarino, 
fought with unabated fury for four hours, when the fleets 
of Turkey and Egypt had totally disapj)eared and two- 
thirds of their crews were killed or wounded. In 1828 
Russia declared war against Turkey and invaded her terri- 
tory with 115,000 men, who nearly annihilated Turkey, but 
winter setting in ended the campaign. But in 1829, says 
Kieth, " the power of Turkey was broken and both parties 
preferred peace and concluded the war.'' Another portion 
of that vial was the Asiatic cholera, which broke out in 
1821, again in 1822, at Bassora, at the head of the Persian 
Gulf, ran up those two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, 
carrying off vast numbers of citizens. In 1822 the plague 
followed the cholera, and in the short space of eight weeks 
carried ofl* 50,000 of the population of Bagdad ; and says Mr. 
Kitto, who was on the spot, " When at last it pleased God 
to stay the hand of the destroying angel, it was found that 
out of a population of 80,000, scarcely 25,000 survived." 
But the sword followed and a fierce contest of blood ensued 
between the troops of the Pasha and those of the Sultan. 
In August, in the Bombay Gazette we read, " We have 
heard with the utmost dismay and sorrow that Mecca and 
Medina and Jidda have been completely depopulated by a 



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dreadful disease, the nature of which is yet unknown. 
Asia Minor and Egypt have also been visited by a depopu- 
lating pestilence. In Alexandria, Cairo and Smyrna 
hundreds died of the cholera every day.'' In 1844, Captains 
Jevy and Mangles, two European travelers, passed through 
that country and say, " Every element of depopulation and 
destruction have been going on in Turkey for the last 
twenty years.'' Then in 1853 commenced the Crimean war 
till 1856, then that succeeded by this last war, and the 
Turkish power is broken, extinguished, gone. The 
Euphrates is dried up. Now be it remembered that the 
significance and importance of the little horn of the third 
beast arose from the fact that it projected a system of false 
religion, the Mahometan, that held in desperate bondage 
for 1200 years half the eastern world, and its votaries are 
to be projected into the battle of Armageddon. 

THE FOUBTH POWER. 

The symbols of the fourth great Gentile power are more 
numerous than of any other, because of the various parts it 
is to play in the affairs among men. We shall not present 
all at once. The legs of iron in the image, the iron and 
clay of the toes ; the beast, dreadful and terrible, unlike 
any other beast in the vision in Daniel, chapter 7, ten toes 
in the image, and ten horns of the beast. Rome was 
founded 753 B. C, on the banks of the river Po, by two 
brothers, who were twins, each of whom built a wall on 
one of the seven hills. One of the brothers in derision 
leaped over the wall of the other's building, who slew him 
on the spot, and thus the foundation of Rome was 
cemented by the blood of a brother. The Romans subdued 
the surrounding tribes and became a great nation, a.nd the 



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year 30 B. C. absorbed the last province of the Grecian 
Empire, when Egypt asked protection from the invasion 
of Antiochus, King of Syria. And thus Rome became a 
sovereign power, and in prophetic language, became the 
fourth kingdom, or Gentile power to rule over the earth. 
This is the iron kingdom, symbolized by the legs of iron 
breaking in pieces and stamping the residue with the feet. 

Again, in Revelations chapter 13th, we have the same 
power represented under the symbol of a beast coming up 
out of the sea having seven heads, and ten horns, and 
ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of Blasphemy, 
combining the characteristics of the leopard, the bear and 
the lion ; and the dragon gave him his seat and power and 
great authority, and one of his heads was wounded to 
death, and the deadly wound was healed and all the world 
wondered after the beast ; and a mouth was given him of 
blasphemy against God, and power to make war against 
the saints and overcome them and slay the two witnesses ; 
and claimed to sit in the seat of God, and himself as the 
object of worship above all that is called God or is wor- 
shiped, claiming himself that he is God. He was to con- 
tinue to exercise this power forty-two months, or 1260 pro- 
phetic days, 1260 years. 

Again, we are told in Revelations 17th chapter, that, 
connected with this fourth power, there are seven kings or 
forms of government. Says the relator, five are fallen, one 
is, and the other is not yet come ; and when he cometh 
he must continue for a short time, and the eighth is of the 
seventh, arising out of the bottomless pit and goeth into 
perdition ; and the little horn of this fourth beast arises 
among the ten horns, plucks up three ; and then another 
beast coming up with two horns as a lamb and speaks as a 
dragon. Said the revelator of the forms of Roman gov- 



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ernment ; Five are fallen, one is. The five forms of gov- 
ernment through which Borne had passed in the year 96 
of the Christian era, when John wrote the book of Reve- 
lations, were: Kings, Consuls, Military Tribunes, Decem- 
virs and Republic. One is, says the revelator, — the Imperial 
was the form of government from Julius Caesar's day ; the 
other form had not come, but must continue a short time. 
God now put the sovereign power into the hands of Rome 
as a probationer, holding them responsible for the mainte- 
nance and transmission of those great interests for the 
race, even the gospel of Christ. But instead of maintain- 
ing those saered interests as a great political poAver, and 
fulfilling her mission, she put to death during the continu- 
ance of this sixth form of government of Imperial Pagan 
Rome, 3,000,000 of earnest, devoted christians ; this form 
of government lasted over three hundred years. 

Let us now pause from following the narrative of 
Rome, as we have arrived at the point where one of the 
heads was wounded to death, which was Imperial Pagan 
Rome, and consider the seven seals, 'which properly 
come in at this point. John tells us in chapter 5th : He 
saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a 
book sealed up with seven seals. This book contained a 
history of God's providential administration, or as John 
says, the things that were to come to pass hereafter. And 
no one could break the seals and open the book. John wept 
much, but he was told the Lion of the tribe of Judah had 
prevailed to open the book and loose the seals. And when 
the Lamb had opened one of the seals John says he saw a 
white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow, and a 
crown was given him, and he went forth conquering and 
to conquer. Then there is a red horse, and a black, and a 
pale horse. And these are all symbolic representations of 



48 Scripture Prophecy. 



events in the divine plan. And if one can find out what 
is the symbol, and then its meaning, all will be clear ; if we 
mistake these we will confuse ourselves and others. Let us 
say then that of all these four seals the color of the horses 
is the symbol. And the first is a white horse. Now white 
is used thirteen times in this book as a symbol of the 
righteousness of Christ or the saints, and so the rider on the 
white horse represents Christ with a bow and crown, going 
forth conquering both by his providence and his grace, 
and finally to conquer, who must reign till all things be 
subdued unto himself. Then in chapter 19th the same 
rider is seen coming back from Heaven riding on the white 
horse, and his name is the Word of God. The second horse 
was red, and the rider on him had a great sword, and was 
told to take peace from the earth, that they should kill one 
another. Red is a symbol of blood, and so is a great sword, 
and they were told to kill one another. Who then are 
they ? Bead the 2d Psalm : Why do the heathen rage, (the 
Bomans) and the people imagine a vain thing, (the people 
were the Jews) who took counsel together when the Jews 
and Bomans combined to crucify Christ. Herod and Pilate 
made friends on that day, and now they are told to kill 
each other, which they did, from the year A. D. 69 to about 
A. D. 250, more or less wars among them until they had 
mutually butchered 3,000,000; 1,100,000 destroyed of the 
Jews, during the wars of the Bomans up to the year A. 
D. 70, at the destruction of Jerusalem ; but they did not 
stop at that, they continued to kill one another and to take 
peace from the earth. The third seal opened, and behold a 
black horse, and a rider with a j)air of balances, and famine 
prices for grain. A scene of famine ensued ; we are told that 
during this series of wars 5,000,000 of men were in arms in 
the Boman empire, and fruits of the earth were neglected 



Second Lecture. 49 



to be cultivated, and Gibbon tells us of terrible famine en- 
suing in the Roman Empire, followed by the fourth seal 
opened and the pale horse. And power was given to them 
to kill with famine and death or pestilence and the beasts 
of the earth, and Gibbon tells us of a plague that carried off 
eight thousand in a day in the city of Rome, and he tells 
up to A. D. 265, (taking the city of Alexandria as a fair 
specimen of calculation,) that one half, or 60,000,000 of 
population of the Roman Empire had been cut off. So the 
riders on the four horses had fulfilled their mission. I 
have already said to you, that that Im^Derial Pagan form of 
Roman government had persecuted and put to death dur- 
ing its continuance to A. D. 318, 3,000,000 of God's iieople. 
And following the fourth seal is the fifth seal oi^ened, and 
John saw under the altar the souls of them that were be- 
headed for the word of God, crying for God to avenge them 
on them that dwell on the earth. They were told to 
wait awhile, till others should be killed. The last and, as is 
said, the most severe and bloody of all the persecutions un- 
der the Roman Emperors, was that of Dioclesian in the 
beginning of the fourth century. It is well known that the 
heathen offered their sacrifices on iron or brazen altars or 
grates, and the ashes fell down under the altar. So as the 
heathen offered up these christians to appease the wrath of 
their angry gods, they are represented as their souls falling 
and lying under the altar ; three millions crying for ven- 
geance on their persecutors. Thus we have the fifth seal 
opened, and a significant one it is. 

And the sixth seal opened, and the sun became black 
as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood, and the 
stars fell ; but there was an earthquake before this. An 
earthquake is a very common symbol in scripture, and in 
every passage, when so used, represents a revolution, polit- 



50 Scripture Prophecy. 



ical or religious, or both. The sun represents the ruling 
power ; the moon the provincial rulers, and the stars the 
subordinate officers of a government ; and an earthquake 
is only an earth-shake, shaking things out of their place ; 
so is a revolution. 

In the year 306, Constantihus Chlorus, the father of 
Constantino, who was in Britian at the head of an army 
died, but sent for his son to come to him. He went, but 
his father died before he arrived in Britain. His army 
elected him emperor. At that time there were four em- 
perors ruled over Rome. It happened on this occasion : In 
ancient times there was an aged emperor, and he chose 
a successor, and called him Cezar, but himself took the title 
of Augustus ; then, afterward, there were two aged em- 
perors, and each chose a successor, and so there were four 
when Constantino became emperor, in 306: Dioclesian, 
Maximin, Licinius and Constantino. Constantino subdued 
Dioclesian and Maximin, and took possession of their territo- 
ry ; and in the year 313 himself and Licinius issued a joint 
proclamation, granting all the subjects of the Roman world 
to worship God as they pleased. But soon after Constantine 
made war upon Licinius, and subdued him and became the 
sole ruling emperor of Rome. In about the year 318, he 
adopted the Christian religion, and then made in its gov- 
ernment an entire change ; from the imperial son to the 
lowest .officer in the government, both in civil and religious 
departments every heathen officer was turned out of office, 
and their places filled by professing christians. And thus, 
an earthquake, and the sun became black, etc., and the 
heathen calling for rocks to hide them froim him that sat 
on the throne (Constantine, a Christian emperor), and the 
wrath of the Lamb. It is a singular fact that, as Constan- 
tine soon commenced to persecute the heathen, as they had 



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the christians, they acknowledged they suffered for their 
persecutions of Christ and his people. Now, the seventh 
seal has no event of its own, but calls for seven trumpets. 
John says of one of the seven heads or forms of Roman 
government — one of his heads was wounded to death: 
This is the Imperial Pagan head that, by Constantine's 
adopting the Christian religion as the religion of Rome, 
the Pagan form was wounded to death. Then Constan- 
tine removed the seat of government from Rome to Byzan- 
tium, and built Constantinople, and thus constituted the 
seventh form of Roman government, which was to con- 
tinue a short time. It did continue as the Christian Roman 
empire from 318 to 395, when Theodocius the Great, dying, 
divided that empire between his two sons, Honorius and 
Arcadius. But the eighth form or beast was of the seventh, 
and we are told that the dragon gave the beast his seat and 
power, and great authority. Nero was appointed emperor 
of Rome in 54. He was a bloody monster, and Plautius 
Laterinus and a number of other senators conspired to assas- 
sinate him. Plautius Laterinus had a fine palace. The 
conspiracy was found out, and the conspirators put to 
death. That palace was confiscated to the Roman emper- 
ors ; in 318 Con stan tine gave that palace to Sylvester, the 
bishop of the Catholic party ih Rome, which has been 
the seat of the beast to the present time ; and thus the 
dragon, Constantino, at the head of Rome as a persecuting 
power— for he now commenced to persecute Christians- 
gave the Roman beast his seat. 

There are now four war trumpets to sound. To seven 
angels were given seven trumpets, and the first angel 
sounded and there was a storm of hail and fire mingled 
with blood. I have said to you Rome, as a great power, 
had been on probation, and up to the time of the sounding 



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of the trumpets, from 550 to 655, for 1,200 years ; and tbey 
had persecuted Christ aud his people, and now God Jets 
loose upon them four great barharic nations, who in rapid 
succession fulfill their mission to divide Rome into ten 
kingdoms, as symbolized by the ten toes of the image and 
the ten horns of the beast — all this was accomplished 
between 550 and 650. Here is the symbol of a storm of hail 
and fire mingled with blood. About 550, 200,000 warriors of 
the Gothic nation came into tiie Roman empire from the 
north of the Caspian Sea with all their little ones, their 
cattle and their herds, and settled and secured large portions 
of her territory and formed two Gothic kingdoms. Their 
celebrated leader was Alaric. The Goths were followed by 
the Vandals, of Africa, under the leadership of Genseric, 
who also wrenched vast portions of the Roman territory. 
The second trumpet or angel sounded, and as it were, a 
burning mountain wp^ cast into the sea and the third part 
of the creatures in the sea died. Gibbon tells us that 
Genseric created a great naval power and constantly invaded 
both the eastern and western empires, at Rome and Con- 
stantinople, and that they combined their forces and fitted 
a fleet of 1,113 ships and sent against him, but that in a 
single battle and in a single night he burned, sank or 
destroyed 800 of them on the Mediterranean Sea. The third 
angel sounded and a burning star fell on the rivers and 
fountains of waters where the stream^ and springs gush 
out on the foot of the Alps and run into the Mediterranean 
Sea. It is called a land of a thousand streams. Attalia, the 
leader of 200,000 Huns, lit down on this locality and plun- 
dered and burned all the cities and left the country a 
smoking ruin and assumed the title of the Scourge of God, 
and said grass never grew where his horses' feet had trod — 
and this star was called Wormwood, and many men died of 



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the waters because they were made bitter. And the fourth 
angel sounded, and the sun was smitten and the third part 
of the moon, etc. The Lombards had now settled in Italy, 
and Odoacer, tlie king, became popular with the Romans, 
and the Romans asked the emperor at Constantinople to 
abohsh the title of emperor of Rome and remove the ensigns 
of royalty from Rome to Constantinople, abolish the pre- 
rogatives of the Roman senate. Thus the old sun and moon 
and stars shown not, and the day was darkened for a third 
part of it and the night likewise. By 650 Rome was broken 
into fragments and divided into ten kingdoms, by the 
Goths and Vandals, the Huns and Lombards. 



LECTURE THIRD 



Rise of Papacy, Destruction of Witnesses, and Vials of Wrath. 

IIUT we are told the deadly wound was healed and all the 
^ world wondered after the beast. As the imperial power 
was removed to Constantinople, the bishop of Rome early 
began to assume authority and gather around him the 
elements of power. Soon he assumed the authority to 
dictate to other bishops and churches, and even to dictate to 
governors, and finally to dictate to emperors and subjects ; 
he would assume that the religious power was above the 
civil, and that a ruler excommunicated by the pope could 
not exercise his own government. He put the emj)eror 
under ban and he had to go to Rome and stand, in January, 
three days and nights, barefoot and bareheaded, and kiss 
his toe. He assumes the most blasphemous prerogatives as 
an object of worship. He has now the two horns of the 
lamb, sitting in the temple of God declaring himself that 
he is God. And now in the seventh century he combined 
with Charlemagne, king of France, to help him conquer 
a part of Germany, if Charlemagne would help him con- 
quer the three kingdoms of Rome, Ravenna and Italy, 
which he did, and then Charlemagne ceeded these to the 
pope and his successors forever. Then the pope of Rome 
put a tiara on his head, which the popes of Rome have 
worn to this day with three crowns, showing everybody he 
is the little horn that plucked up three by the roots. He 
then assumed to possess civil and ecclesiastical powers and 



56 Scripture Prophecy. 

thus became the beast coming out of the earth, having two 
horns like a lamb, but he spake like a dragon. This is then 
the little horn of the fourth beast, having eyes as a man 
and wears out the saints, whom the Lord shall consume 
with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with the bright- 
ness of his coming. And the significance and importance 
of tracing this little horn of the fourth beast clearly is, as 
with the third, because it has produced a system of religion 
that has crushed Europe for 1,260 years and is to be with its 
votaries an active element in the battle of God Almighty, 
as we shall show. 

This is the power combined with France that i3ut to 
death the two witnesses ; for this Catholic power, in the 
sixteenth century, after the reformation had commenced 
under Luther, proclaimed a crusade of extermination 
against the two ancient witnesses, and granted absolution 
from sin, or sins, and a full and free title to eternal life to 
all who should enlist in that crusading army, and all the 
spoils should belong to the conquerors. This brought out 
a vast army of murderers and plunderers in connection 
wath the Pope's legate at its head. This army was joined 
by the army of the French monarch, and the two pro- 
ceeded to fulfill the predicted killing of the two witnesses. 
They slaughtered in the most cruel and cold-blooded mur- 
der of the ancient Waldenses, 800,000, rolling the mother 
and babe down the rocks and dashing them to pieces be- 
low, murdering the entire population so far as possible, 
and burning their towns and fortresses. The city of 
Beziers affords a fair example ; it was a fine city before the 
war-, but was by the crusading army besieged, surrounded, 
taken and burnt. Catholics and Waldenses, indiscrimi- 
nately, and after it was consumed nothing was left but a 
heap of smoking ashes. This city contained 60,000 popu- 



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lation, and not one human being was left alive. After 
they had thus destroyed the Waldenses, they put to death 
by the best computation one million of Albigenses ; and 
thus killed those organic bodies which had witnessed for 
God and truth through all that long, dark night of Papal 
persecution of 1260 years, clothed in sackcloth. This cru- 
sade occurred between 1672 and 1696 ; and the Catholics 
utterly refused to allow the friends of the slain to bury the 
dead, and so the revelator represents their bodies as lying 
in the streets of the great city, or in the countries of Cathol- 
icism, for three days and a half. It is well known that 
many fugitives of the Waldenses and Albigenses fled to 
then Protestant countries for protection ; and it is both 
interesting and curious, as Bishop Newton tells us, that 
Bishop Loyd, of England, a devoted Christian and earnest 
student of prophecy, looking upon this scene as the death 
of the two Witnesses, as revealed in Revelations 11, and 
believing in their resurrection, told some of the fugitive 
Waldensian ministers to return home, for his people would 
reorganize, which they did ; and on their way home the^ 
learned that by the encouragement given them by the 
protestant princes they had returned, reorganized and 
defeated the Catholic forces ; they and their descendants 
still prophecy, but not in sackcloth. 

You will now find in this 11th chapter of Revelation, 
at the conclusion of the destruction of the Witnesses, 
which, as we told you, was after the last conquest of the 
Turks, in 1672, when it was announced the second woe is 
past ; and behold the third woe cometh quicky. As we 
said, the seventh seal has no event of its own, but calls for 
seven vials of wrath. We said to you nothing occurred to 
call for a line of history or a word of prophecy regarding 
the Turkish Empire from 1762 to 1820. In the fifteenth 



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chapter of Revelation and first verse, we are told by John 
that he saw seven angels having the seven la«t plagues, for 
in them is filled up the wrath of God ; as in the tenth 
chapter, we are told that while during the reformation the 
angel said : The times as they then were should be no 
longer, but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel 
as, or while he is sounding, the mystery of God shall be 
finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets, 
as the seventh trumpet calls for the seven vials. Thus the 
mystery is finished during the pouring of the seven vials ; 
and the third woe is the seven vials ; the third woe cometh 
quickly. 

But in the days of the seventh angel, while he con- 
tinues sounding, the mystery of God shall be finished, as 
he hath declared to his servants the prophets, because 
the seven vials are under the seventh trumpet. Then 
let us examine the seven vials of the wrath of God. 
Revelations 16 : And I heard a great voice out of the 
temple saying to the seven angels, go your ways and pour 
out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the 
first went and poured out his vial upon the earth ; and 
there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which 
had the mark of the beast, and upon them which wor- 
shipped his image. We told you ancient Rome was for 1200 
years a probationer on trial for a higher condition and 
richer blessing ; that she persecuted the Savior and put 
him and his people to death, and God commissioned, under 
the sounding of the four war trumpets, four great barbaric 
nations to break her into fragments in the fifth and sixth 
centuries ; that the Eastern or Greek Empire was on pro- 
bation in the East, and that God commissioned under the 
fifth and sixth, or first and second woe trumpets, the 
Saracens to destroy the empire and persecute the church ; 



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and that still they reijented not, but worshipped idols and 
devils as formerly ; and now one conies to show you how 
God hag commissioned seven angels to finish up his wrath 
on an apostate church and a guilty world. This first vial, 
poured out on the men v/ho had the mark of the beast and 
worshii^ped his image; this, the first French revolution, 
commenced in 1789, poured out, as it was most meet, on 
guilty France, who was the first European power, as we 
showed you, to strike hands with the Pope of Rome in her 
wicked usurpations and cruelties, and who has stood by 
him to this day. Charlemagne, King of France, aided the 
Pope to pluck up those three horns, and then made him a 
temporal power. And now after a thousand years of pro- 
bation , God pours out the first of the seven vials of wrath 
upon them. 

From 1775 to 1783, the American revolution raged in its 
fury, and finally prevailed through aid kindly afforded by 
the self-sacrifice of the noble Lafayette and the French na- 
tion. At that time oj)en infidelity was rife in England and 
France. A class of self-styled philosophers arose in both 
countries ; and, says Lardner's Outlines of History, A set 
of men, many of them of talents of the first order, arrogating 
to themselves the title of jDhilosophers, actuated, at first 
perhaps, by a zeal for the truth, carried on an incessant 
warfare against all that they were pleased to designate as 
superstition and vulgar prejudice. But theirs was not that 
philosophy, which elevated above all low and groveling 
passions and irradiated by a light from Heaven, views 
with pity, rather than with contempt, the aberrations of 
man, and seeks, by mild and gentle method, to lead him 
into the way of truth. It was heartless, cold and cheer- 
less ; its summum bonumwsiS sensual indulgence or literary 
fame, and few of its professors displayed any real dignity 



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of soul; its favorite weapon was ridicule ; it attacked not 
only the absurdities of the popular faith, but it leveled its 
shafts at the sublimest truths of religion ; it shook the 
firmest basis of social order, and sought to rob man of all lofty 
hopes and aspirations. The chief seat of this philosophy 
was France, where a corrupt court, and profligate beyond 
perhaps any which Europe has witnessed, had utterly 
degraded the minds of the upper classes of society. It 
was a time of innovation, turmoil and violent change. All 
these were but the preludes to the storm that was soon to 
burst over Europe. Says Sir Walter Scott : ^' The Catholic 
church had grown old, and unfortunately did not possess 
the means of renovating her doctrine, so as to keep pace 
with the enlargement of the human understanding. She 
could explain nothing, soften nothing, renounce nothing 
consistent with her assertion of iufaUibility. The whole 
trash which she had been accumulating for ages of dark- 
ness and ignorance — whether extravagant pretensions, ab- 
surd doctrines which confounded the understanding, or 
puerile ceremonies which revolted the taste, could neither 
be explained away or abandoned." The Kegent Duke of 
Orleans, taking advantage of the license of Catholicism, his 
conduct was marked by open infamy enough, says Sir 
Waiter Scott, to, in the days of miracles, call down an 
immediate judgment from Heaven ; and crimes, wliicli the 
worst of European emperors would have hidden, were 
acted as publicly as if men had no eyes, and God had no 
thunderbolts. Such was the condition of France in 1789 ; 
when, for the first time in 175 years, their national assembly 
met — and in that assembly infidelity assumed a definite 
form, and usurped finally the entire power of that revo- 
lutionary body ; which finally culminated into the hands 
of the Jacobins; and finally, under the guidance and 



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control of Danton, Murat and Robesi^ierre, they soon by a- 
formal act annihilated the existence of a God — blotted 
from existence the Bible, and with it all religion. They 
then set up a prostitute in the temple of libert^^ ; then com- 
menced a war of extermination against kings and princes, 
nobles and j)riests, altars and thrones. The king and 
queen were both beheaded ; and for years a war of exterm- 
ination was carried on, not in Paris alone, but in the 
country, till France was much of it a desert of smoking 
ruins, and two thousand of the best ftimilies in France had 
been exterminated. In that Jacobin club, during a single 
secret sitting, in a single night, two hundred men would 
be proscribed and guillotined before daylight the next 
morning. No man\s life, indeed, was safe; it was, indeed, 
a reign of terror ; a grevious sore poured out on the men 
who had the mark of the beast, and worshipped his image. 
Rev. 16: 3. 

THE SECOND VIAL. 

And the second angel i^oured out his vial upon the sea,, 
and it became as the blood of a dead man ; and every liv- 
ing soul died in the sea. In 1792 France became a republic 
— 1793, January 21, the king of France was guillotined ; in 
17*93 France declared war against Great Britain. Here is, 
then, in this contest between Great Britain and France on 
the seas, this second vial of wrath ; in 1794, the French 
fleet was defeated by Earl Howe, June 1 ; again, in 1795, 
by Lord Bridgeport. In 1797, the Spanish fleet, connected 
with the French, was defeated by Earl St. Vincent, Feb- 
ruary 14; the Dutch fleet by Lord Duncan, October 11, 
1798; the French fleet by Lord Nelson, August 1, and this 
system of naval warfare continued with little abatement 
from 1793, taking its rise in the French revolution, till 1815. 
The whole world's history, says Mr. Keith, presents not 



62 Scripture Prophecy. 

such a scene and period of naval warfare as that which took 
its rise in the French revolution, immediately after that 
grievous sore had fallen on those who had the mark of 
the beast. The murderous warfare on the sea was not over- 
matched by any on land. The ferocity of the British tar, 
in the hour of battle, was not surpassed by that of the most 
savage Turk. A vial of wrath is indeed poured out upon 
the sea. A system of privateering was also, established ; 
naval war became the trade of individuals as well as nations ; 
letters of marque were issued ; and the merchant could sit 
calmly at his desk, and, under the sanction of human laws, 
fit out a privateer. The quarrel of nations was converted 
into the privilege of private plunder and of sharing in the 
spoils. From being the highway of the commerce of the 
world, which God left open from shore to shore, the sea 
became a field for the chase, or the scene of battle, where 
warriors decided the controversy of kingdoms and the 
licensed pirate went forth to capture and to slay. The 
navies of Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland and 
Denmark were all engaged in this vial poured out on the 
sea; and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Mediterra- 
nean, the Baltic, the North and South seas, were all stained 
with the blood of the enemies of Britain, and she launched 
her ships from the harbors of India and America ; and not 
a ship of continental Europe could ride safely on any part 
of the sea. Thus the second vial has expended its power, 
and every living soul died in the sea. 

THE THIRD VIATi. 

Let us call to mind the sounding of the third trumpet, 
and its location. Revelations 8, 10, 11 : And the third 
angel sounded, and there fell a great star from Heaven 
burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of 



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the rivers and fountains of water. There Attila the great 
star fell, reducing in his course the cities of Aquileah, 
Altium, Concordia and Faduah, to heaps of stones and 
ashes, and burning as if it were a lamp the inland towns of 
Vicenza, Verona, and Bergamo ; he spread his ravages 
over the rich plains of Lombardy. In the same region of 
the fountains and rivers of water now the third vial is 
poured out, and now after ihe French Assembly had in 
1793 annulled by their action those Justinian laws. Na- 
poleon Bonaparte is in 1796, sent finally to execute or pour 
out the third vial on the rivers and fountains of water. 
Austria now occupies by her armies that part of the 
country ; and he marches over the Alps with his army, 
dragging his cannon ; and now the instruction to the 
general-in-chief of the army of Italy, is : The principal 
enemies with whom the French Republic have to contend 
on the Italian side, are two — the Piedmontese and the Aus- 
trians. It is the most immediate interest of the French 
Republic to direct its principal efforts against the Austrian 
army and possessions in Lombardy. The mere attack of 
Piedmont would not fulfill the object which the Executive 
Directory have in view, that of expelling the Austrians 
from Italy. The battle of Monte Notte was the first of 
Napoleon's victories. In consequence of this success and 
the close pursuit of the defeated Austrians, he was enabled 
to fix his headquarters at Cera, and enjoyed from the 
heights of Monte-zomoto, the splendid view and the fertile 
fields of Piedmont, stretching in boundless perspective 
beneath his feet, watered by the Po, the Janaro, and a 
thousand other streams, which descend from the Alps. 
And according to one writer "in less than a month did 
Napoleon lay the gates of Italy open before him." He had 
defeated in three battles forces much superior to his own, 



64 Scripture Prophecy. 

inflicted on them in killed, wounded, and prisoners, a loss 
of 25,000 men, taken eighty guns, and twenty-one stand- 
ards, reduced the Austrians to inactivity, utterly destroy- 
ed the king of Sardinia's army, and lastly had wrested from 
him. Coni and Tortona, the two great fortresses called the 
Keys of the Alps. The Austrians now concentrated their 
forces on the river Adda, at the bridge of Lodi, or as Na- 
poleon used to call it the terrible bridge of Lodi. The 
Austrian army with about thirty pieces of cannon were 
on the other side and Napoleon's army had to cross that 
bridge in face of a murderous discharge of grape shot. But 
he accomplished it, and the Austrian artillerymen were 
bayoneted at their guns ; the Austrian line became involved 
in inextricable confusion, broke up and fled." On the 14th 
of May, four days after Lodi, Bonaparte entered in all the 
splendor of nailitary triumph the venerable and opulent 
city of the old Lombard kings. And now, after defeating 
large Austrian armies, and conquering Sardinia, Italy, and 
defeating every Austrian army against him, he is met by 
Wurmsur, now returning from Germany, with 80,000 men, 
and the record is, *'this splendid army was destroyed in 
detail." The Austrians are supposed to have lost 40,000 
men in these disastrous battles. In those three terrible 
campaigns three Austrian armies had been already anni- 
hilated ; a formidable army of 60,000 under Alvinzi, again 
advanced from Germany ; and now once more in three 
days that fine army is scattered, and from 30,000 to 35,000 
slain. Vienna, the capital of Austria, was panic struck on 
hearing that Napoleon had passed the Julian Alps, and the 
war with Austria was at an end. And though Napoleon 
was now attacked by the combined forces of the Prussian 
and Russian emperors, and the Russians under Suwarrow 
reconquered almost all the territory he had conquered, still 



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in an incredible short time he met and conquered the com- 
bined army of the emperors, and reconquered all Europe, 
except England, Holland and part of Spain, when they 
were scorched into submission and obedience, as "almost 
all the losses he sustained in 1799 were regained by the 
battles of Montebello and Marengo/^ In all these cam- 
paigns in the region of the rivers and fountains of waters 
there could not have been less than the blood of two hun- 
dred thousand men shed. **And I heard the angels of the 
waters say, thou art righteous, O Lord, which art and 
shalt be, because thou hast judged thus ; for they have shed 
the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them 
blood to drink, for they are worthy; the blood of the wit- 
nesses of Jesus. '^ 

THE FOURTH VIAL. 

Revelations 16 : 8-9 : And the fourth angel poured 
out his vial upon the sun, and power was given him to 
scorch men with fire ; and men were scorched with great 
heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which had poured 
out these plagues; and they repented not to give him 
glory. 

And power was given him to scorch men with fire, and 
men were scorched with great heat. Says Mr. Kieth, 
** Though symbolized as the sun, he is spoken of as a person ; 
yet, in conformity to the symbol, the destruction which 
he wrought, no longer confined to a single region, is 
described as his scorching men with fire and with great 
heat, denoting severity of judgment and the withering 
infiuence of his power against all on whom it fell. Within 
the space of eight years he scorched every kingdom in 
Europe, from Naples to Berlin and from Lisbon to Moscow. 
Ancient kingdoms withered before the intense blaze of his 

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66 SCRIPIURE PkOPHECY. 



power. Plagues accompanied his progress. In the wars 
which he waged, the conquest of kingdoms was the work 
of a day. Decrees were issued ; supplies, the most exorbit' 
ant, were levied; kingdoms were unsparingly reft like 
garments. He parceled out continental Europe as a heritage, 
and a system of spoliation, extortion and oppression was 
established, that the subjected nations might be enslaved to 
the will of one man. Like the sun, there was nothing hid 
from his great heat.'' And so it was said " In the battle of 
Austerlitz it was the incessant fire that caused the horrid 
spectacle of ruin.'' Says Kieth, ^ ' The fate of Germany was 
decided in one battle, and that of the kingdom of Prussia 
in another." Prussia rushed into a war with Napoleon in 
1806. " The overthrow^of Prussia," says Kieth, "was the 
campaign of a day. The Prussians now made war upon 
him and a battle was fought at which 50,000 corpses were 
left on the field." And in the close of 1809 he had con 
quered a territory of 800,000 square miles and a population 
of 40,000,000 of people, and still at last the vial is poured out 
on the scene. In 1809, Napoleon prepared to make war 
upon Russia and invade her territory, and in August of the 
same year, crossed her line with 470,000 men. He had at 
that time an efficient army of 650,000 men. Says Kieth, 
"He crossed the Nieman at the head of at least 470,000 men. 
The Russians, instead of advancing to meet him, retired 
at his approach, burned their villages and laid waste their 
country. Their continued retreat lured him on to destruc- 
tion. A thrice repeated attack on Smolensko was thrice 
resisted and repelled, but the garrison abandoned the city 
they had defended and left it in flames to the invaders. 
The conflagration (the houses being chiefly of wood and 
the season dry), according to the French bulletin, 'resem- 
bled, in its fury, an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.' On the 7th 



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of September the hostile armies of nearly equal numbers 
encountered each other at Borodino, where a thousand 
cannon were in the field. In no contest by many degrees 
so desperate, had Bonaparte hitherto been engaged. Night 
found either army on the ground they had occupied at 
day-break. The number of guns and prisoners taken by 
the French and Russians were about equal, and of either 
host there had fallen not less than 40,000 men. Some 
accounts raise the gross number of slain to 100,000.'^ The 
Russians again retreated and left their old capital, Moscow, 
which for ages has stood as the memorial name of the family 
of Mesheck, the son of Japhath. This city the French 
entered and found it a deserted city. *' It was but for one 
day a prey to the enemy ; on the next it was enveloped in 
flames, and the conflagration of Smolensko was rekindled in 
Moscow; and the burning of Moscow would have been the 
saving of Europe if men, from judgments, would have 
learned righteousness.^' On the next night on which 
Napoleon entered that proud city of the Muscovites and 
took possession of the Kremlin, her stronghold, as the 
height of his ambition as supposed, it was fired in a hundred 
places and burned down over the heads of his soldiers, and 
says Kieth, ** The high ambition of Napoleon had placed 
the Kremlin in proud vision before him, and when he 
looked from its battlements he saw nothing but ' the raging 
sea of fire which swept the capital east, west, north and 
south.' " ''Palaces and temples," says the Russian author, 
Karamsin, "monuments of art and miracles of luxury, the 
remains of ages long since past, and the creations of yester- 
day, tombs of ancestors and the cradles of children were 
indiscriminately destroyed. Nothing was left of Moscow 
save the memory of her people and the deep resolution to 
avenge her fall . During two days Napoleon witnessed from 



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the Kremlin this fearful destruction.'' No triumphal arch 
awaited his entrance into the capital of the Muscovite. But 
when the Kremlin itself, on the third night, took fire, 
Napoleon at length rode out of Moscow through streets in 
many parts arched over with flames. He could not with- 
draw his eyes from the rueful spectacle which the burning 
city presented, and often repeated, *'this bodes great 
calamity.'' At this time there came on a terrible Russian 
winter with heavy snow. And now commenced that 
French retreat of that vast army over that same desolated 
country through which they had passed, as they supposed 
to victory, but only to destruction. And now they have a 
heavy snow, a terrible freeze, and the force of the whole 
Russian army, now stung to the quick and thirsting for 
revenge, to encounter on their retreat, and utterly unpro- 
visioned. In his ambition and in the pride of his power 
he threatened to be to Europe a second Attalia (a scourge 
of God), and himself a second Charlemagne; but when 
snow heaps marked where his troops had ingloriously 
fallen, when he heard his allies begin to withdraw, when 
cities were taken by his enemies in the rear, and when he 
who had been a terror to kingdoms and whose rapid move- 
ments and fierce assaults had often astounded the most 
cautious of his foes, was threatened on every side, in the 
bitterness of his heart he exclaimed, '' Thus it befalls when 
we commit faults upon faults." And when doubting of his 
next movement, he heard that positions essential to his 
safety were in the hands of the Russians, *'is it written^^^ 
he said, looking upwards and striking the earth with his 
cane, ^'Is it written that we shall commit nothing but 
errors?" And scarcely had he uttered these words, ^^Is it 
written?^^ looking up to heaven and striking the earth, when 
the fact which excited the exclamation, decided the fate of 



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his army. Napoleon had crossed the river Beresina at 
Boregoff with a portion of his army, when that town was 
taken by the Russians, and the bridge so necessary to him 
and his troops was lost. Now amid the deep snows of 
Russia and the terrible biting cold that army of southern 
men of about 300,000 began their retreat, and the Russians 
poured their murderous fire into them, cutting off their 
rear; thousands of them fell frozen in the march, others 
starving for food ; they at last, harrassed and cut off by 
thousands, came to the Beresina, over which they must 
cross ; over which we told you Napoleon had just passed 
when the town and bridge fell into the hands of the Rus- 
sians, which made Napoleon say, ^^Isit written f ' ' Says Sir 
Walter Scott (Life of Napoleon), '*The passage of the 
Beresina was one of the most fearful scenes recorded in the 
annals of war.'^ That vast army of human beings fleeing 
from all those foes combined, each one of which threatened 
death, — the cold and snow, the pinching hunger and the 
furious Russians — and only one way of escape, over that 
bridge. The Russians had brought their cannon to bear on 
the crowded masses along the river ; ** It was then that the 
whole body of stragglers and fugitives rushed like distracted 
beings towards the bridges, every feeling of prudence and 
humanity swallowed up by the animal instinct of self- 
preservation. The horrible scene of disorder was augmented 
by the desperate violence of those who determined to make 
their own way at all hazzards, throw down and trample 
whatever came in their road. All this time the actioh 
continued with fury, and, as if the heavens meant to match 
their wrath with man, a hurricane arose and added terror 
to a scene which was already of a character so dreadful.^ ^ 
About midday the French, still bravely resisting, began to 
loose ground, and the Russians forced them nearer to the 



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bridges ; the larger bridge broke down and multitudes fell 
into the water. '* The scream of mortal agofly at this time, 
which rose from the despairing and drowning multitudes, 
arose to such a height that it was distinctly heard above the 
roar of the tempest, the thunders of war and the hurrahs 
of the Cossacks," and says Sir Walter Scott, " The witness 
from whom we obtained this information declares that the 
sound was in his ears for many weeks. '^ And when that 
river was cleared the next spring by the Russians, they 
gathered and burnt 36,000 dead bodies. Napoleon, on 
entering on the war with Russia, crossed into her territory 
with 470,000 men, and "on the 24th of June, 1812, they 
began to recross the Niemen, they passed it at Kowno, and 
the Russians did not pursue them into the Prussian terri- 
tory. And at the time when they finally escaped from 
Poland there was only about 20,000 dispersed, broken and 
disorganized.'^ Thus ended the invasion of Russia, and a 
vial of wrath had been poured out on the sun. To complete 
the scene the combined powers of Europe took Napoleon 
prisoner in 1815 and sent him to St. Helena, where he spent 
six years in exile and died in 1821 ; and the fourth vial was 
poured out on the sun. 

THE FIFTH VIAL. 

Rev. 16: 10,11. And the fifth angel poured out his 
vial upon the seat of the beast, and his kingdom was full 
of darkness ; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and 
blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their pains and 
their sores, and repented not of their deeds. No rej)entence, 
whatever be the judgments. 

From Justinian (when he adopted his code of laws 
endowing the Pope "with power and great authority, '^ as 
Constantine had given him his seat, as shown formerly, in 



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I 



) 



533,) to the Freuch revolution, 1793— or the 1260 days the 
Witnesses were to prophesy in sackcloth, previous to their 
being slain— the pope of Rome had ruled Europe with a 
tyrant's rod, and trampled on thrones like some monstrous 
beast of the desert; had grown drunk with the blood of 
saints and martyrs of Jesus, and blottled from Europe, for 
a thousand years, all the lights of science and the light 
of revelation and bound men in their ignorance and dark- 
ness ; when, in 1793, the French assembly, by its revolu- 
tionary system, commenced and finally accomplished to 
ahnul all those Justinian laws ; and, with Napolean at 
their head, break the pope's temporal power, and to a 
wonderful degree liberate the mind of Europe, and cause 
science and religion once more to light up the nations with 
the principles of civil and religious liberty. But no sooner 
was the power of Napolean broken, in 1815, than every 
tyrant of Europe sprang again to their feet, and reinstated 
the pope in his temporal dominion, and he restored the 
old inquisition, to crush out every ray of light of science 
or revelation, and put down every rising aspiration for 
civil or religious liberty ; and so, on the pouring out the 
fifth vial of wrath, in 1815, the kingdom of the beast was 
full of darkness, and men gnawed their tongues. Happily 
for our illustration we have extracts from a work written 
by a gentleman who resided in Rome in 1817-1818, show- 
ing the condition of the country at the exact time the 
prophecy contemplates. He says: "All the riches and 
blessings with which the prodigality of Heaven has dressea 
the shores of Italy, has only served more eflfectually to rivet 
her chains. The highest gifted among the countries of the 
earth, she stands the lowest in the scale of nations; the 
strongest in civil power, she is trampled upon by the weak- 
est. The Romans passed beneath the yoke of despotism 



72 Scripture Prophecy. 



never to be liberated. They have, indeed, known change 
of tyrants; but freedom has • revisited the seven hills no 
more ; and glory, and honor, and virtue, and prosperity^ 
have one by one followed in her train ; long annals of 
tyranny, of unexampled vice, of misery and crime — polluted 
with still l^increasing luxury and moral turpitude — 
record the rapid progress of Rome's debasement.' ' 
Lofty and beautiful hills and mountains stretch 
on three sides of the plains of Latium. Far as the 
eye can reach, the Campania stretches in every 
direction to the base of these hills. To the west a 
wild sullen flat extends to the sea. A profusion of bushy 
thickets and a few trees are scattered over this houseless 
plain ; for a plain it is, since, at a distance of sixteen miles, 
where we stood, we could distinctly see Rome. Over this 
wild waste, no rural dwelling, nor scattered hamlets, nor 
fields, nor gardens, were to be seen." ^'No trace oi man, 
except in the lonely tomb, told that he had been.'' '^ Noth- 
ing is more striking to a stranger than the sombre air which 
marks every countenance from the lowest in Rome. The 
faces even of the young are rarely lighted up with a smile ; 
a laugh is seldom heard, and a merry countenance strikes 
us with amazement from its novelty. Rome looks like a 
city whose inhabitants have passed through the cave of 
Traphonius. The low orders are perishing by hundreds, of 
a low contagious fever, brought on by want, and 
numbers have literally died of hunger by the way- 
side, as pestilence is already added to famine. 
This dreadful mortality extends all over Italy ; and 
the sufferings of the living are more cruel and 
heartrending than the dead. The ghastly famine that is 
written in their looks cannot be feigned. The dying and 
the dead surround us on all sides. Forty-six per cent, di^ 



Third Lecture. 73 



annually in their hospitals. The fifth vial is certainly 
poured out. The Roman nobility read not, think not, 
write not. The Italian noblemen, for the most part, are 
ill-educated, ignorant, and illiterate." The whole popu- 
lation are thus sunk into darkness ; and, says Brewster, in 
his encyclopedia. Art. *' Spain " : '* Six years of direful ex- 
perience (from 1814 to 1820) had taught Spain what she had 
to expect from the uncontrolled will of Ferdinand. He 
had subverted all her liberal institutions, and had con- 
signed to dungeons and exile some of her bravest and most 
noble and enlightened sons. During that period she had 
enjoyed repose, but it was the repose of the grave, whose 
gloom no ray of light is permitted to penetrate ; a repose 
fatal to the industry, the intelligence and the happiness of 
a people. The inquisition was restored with its ancient 
plenitude and authority; and among its first acts was a 
publication of a long list of prohibited works, and a decree 
that all prints and pictures, as well as books, should be 
subjected to its previous censorship: — and the kingdom of 
the beast was full of darkness. The sale of the bulls of papal 
pardon and indulgences produces an immense revenue in 
Spain." That the Spaniards, as a people, are ignorant, 
supremely ignorant, it is impossible to dissemble." Turn, 
now, a few moments to Portugal, and finish this illustration. 

A few extracts from Portugal, in 1828, by Wm. Young, 
Esq., must suffice : 

**It should never be lost sight of in speaking of the 
government of Portugal, that we are speaking of a set of 
men whose actions have one object which they are all 
sworn to maintain as one man, that of acquiring absolute 
dominion over the minds and properties of the whole com- 
munity ; and for the attainment of which object they 



74 Scripture Prophecy. 



prostitute the sacred name of religion, violate every social 
tie, and are ready to sacrifice friend or foe to the attainment 
of their wishes. It should always be borne in mind that Don 
Miguel is the mere tool, or political engine, of the principal 
jugglers of the college of Jesuits.'' "Many thousands who 
now crowd the prisons and dungeons of Portugal owe their 
captivity to no higher offense than the hatred of some 
vagabond. Such are the horrors of Portugese imprison- 
ment that their state is described as bordering on frenzy or 
despair. Men confined in these prisons appear by degrees 
to become other beings ; some were driven to actual mad- 
ness or settled melancholy." "It was truly dreadful to 
witness the despair of some of those unfortunate victims of 
despotism.'' And when I tell you that in the dungeons 
and prisons of Portugal, and politically exiled under Don 
Miguel's reign for six years, there were 45,000 in that little 
province of Portugal; only think — exiled — in prison — or 
in dungeons of that little province of Portugal in 1820, 
45,000 objects of Papal oppression and cruelty gnawing 
their tongues for pain, because a vial of wrath has been 
poured out on the seat of the beast. 

We have considered the sixth vial as poured out on the 
great river Euphrates, in 1820, drying up its waters that 
the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. 



LECTURE FOURTH. 



Restoration of Jews, Three unclean Spirits and Battle of Armageddon. 

That the way of the Kings of the East might be pre- 
pared ; that the Jews might be restored to their own land. 

It is lately found that the leading minds in the eastern 
nations are the same as in the western. The prime minis- 
ter of England is a Jew, and a shrewd diplomatist ; the 
leading professors in all the German colleges are Jews ; 
the ablest church historian (Neander) was a Jew ; so it is 
announced that in the Asiatic world the leading minds 
are of the Jews ; the bankers of the world are Jews. 
Leading minds are thus figuratively called kings. These 
have not been permitted to occupy Judea, because of the 
power of the Turks or the Euphrates ; but the Euphrates 
is dried up, the Turkish power is gone. The way of the 
Jews is opened up. 

We have already referred to the five classes of proph- 
ecy, referring to the Jewish people. And we have shown 
briefly how all of those prophecies have been fulfilled, 
except the last, that of their gathering of the whole house 
of Israel ; all the twelve tribes. These were to be fulfilled 
in the latter days. The prophecies regarding their long, 
cruel and wide dispersion are written in Deuteronomy, 
chapter 28, and every one knows they have in their dis- 
persion /or the last 1800 years filled up that terrible bill of 
BuflTering to the very last dregs of woe. They have indeed 
burned like Moses^ bush and unconsumed, and why ? If 
never to be gathered, why pursue them? Hosea 3: 4, 5 : 



76 Scripture Prophecy. 



**For the children of Israel shall abide many days without 
a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and 
without an image, and without an ephod, and with- 
out teraphim ; afterwards shall the children of Israel 
return and seek the Lord their God, and David their 
king and his goodness, in the latter days.'^ Therefore wait 
ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to 
the fray : for my determination is to gather all nations, 
that I may assemble the kingdoms to pour upon them 
mine indignation, even all my fierce anger; for all the 
earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy ; for 
then will turn to the people a pure language. 

Are the Jews to be restored to their land ? Read Isaiah, 
chapter 60, then 66 : 10, Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and 
be glad with her all ye that love her. 12, For behold I will 
extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gen- 
tiles as a flowing stream. 14, And when ye shall see this 
your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like 
an herb. 19, And I will set a sign among them, and I will 
send those that escape of them to the nations, (for what.) 
20, And they shall bring all your brethren for an oflTering 
unto the Lord, out of all nations. Micah, 7, 8, etc.; Re- 
joice not against me, oh, my enemy, when I fall I shall 
rise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto 
me ; I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I 
have sinned against him, until he plead my cause and ex- 
ecute judgment for me ; he will bring me forth to the light 
and I shall behold his righteousness. In the day that thy 
walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree l^e far re- 
moved. In that day, also, he shall come to thee from 
Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress 
even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain 



Fourth Lecture. 77 



to mountain. Notwithstanding, (all the Jews coming) the 
land shall be (found) desolate, because of them that dwell 
therein, for the fruit of their doings. Who don't know 
that the Turks have left the whole land of Judea desolate ; 
they have left every land almost, they have touched, a 
desolation. They have rightfully been called the spoilers 
of the world. 16th v: *' The nations shall see and be con- 
founded at all their might.'' They shall lay their hand up- 
on their mouths, their ears shall be deaf, they shall lick 
the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes 
like worms of the earth, they shall be afraid of the Lord 
our God, and shall flee because of thee. Who is a God like 
unto thee. He will turn again. He will have compassion 
upon us; He will subdue our iniquities, and Thou wilt cast 
all their sins into the depths of the sea ; Thou wilt perform 
the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which Thou 
hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. Zepaniah, 
8, to end : Sing, O daughter of Zion ; Shout, O Israel ; Be 
glad and rejoice with all thy heart, O daughter of Jerusa- 
lem. The Lord hath taken away thy judgment, he hath 
cast out thine enemy (The Turk) ; the King of Israel, even 
the Lord, is in the midst of thee, thou shalt not see evil any 
more. In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, fear thou 
not; and to Zion, let not thy hands be slack; the Lord thy 
God in the midst of thee is mighty, He will save. He will 
rejoice over thee with joy. He will rest in His love. He will 
joy over thee with singing. Behold at that time I will un- 
do all that afflict thee, and I will save her that halteth, and 
gather her that was driven out, and I will get them praise 
and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. 
At that time I will bring you again, even in the time that 
I gather you, for I will make you a name and a praise among 
all the nations of the earth, when I turn back your cap- 



78 SCKIPTURE PkOPHECY. 



tivity before your eyes, saith the Lord. Amos, chapters 9, 
11 to end: In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David 
that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof ; and I will 
raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old, 
that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the 
heathen which are called by name, saith the Lord, that 
doeth this. And I will bring again the captivity of my 
people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities and 
inhabit them ; and they shalt plant vineyards and drink 
the wine thereof, they shall also make gardens and eat the 
fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and 
they shall tio more be pulled up out of their land which 
I have given them, saith the Lord thy God. We shall 
only go further on this point, after asking the reader to care- 
fully read Ezekiel, 34, S6. Call attention to Ezekiel 37, on 
this point of the restoration of Israel to their own land. 
Ezekiel was taken to a valley of dry bones, very many, 
and behold they were very dry, and He said unto me, son 
of man, can these bones live ; and I answered, O, Lord thou 
knowest. Ezekiel was then commanded to prophesy over, 
or to, these bones. It is not necessary to write this whole 
passage, we want the lesson it is calculated to teach. First, 
then, what do these dry bones mean ? Answer in verse 11 : 
Then said He unto me, son of man, these bones are the 
whole house of Israel, and that they have given up all hope 
themselves, for they say, our bones are dried and our hope 
is lost, and we are cut off for our parts. This is the exact 
condition of the public Jewish mind at the present time. 
They are losing confidence in their ancient writings, and 
th^ir Messiah (for whom the nation has been waiting for 
1800 years) still lingers, still delays ; and hope deferred makes 
the heart sick. And it is true many of the Jews tell us they 
have no expectation, or even wish, to go back to their own 



Fourth Lecture. 79 

land. So as long as this objection is anticipated in the 
prophecy and met, why need it be to any one a stumbling 
block at the present day, as long as notwithstanding the 
objection God declares that though it be even as the Jews 
say, their bones are all dried, yet that he would take them 
out of their graves if need be, to accomplish his oath to 
Abraham. The whole house of Israel are embraced in this 
vision. 

And now, dry as they are, Ezekiel is commanded to 
prophesy and say — O, what was he to say to these dry 
bones? Stop just a moment here while we see what Jere- 
miah prophecied of them j ust at this very time : ' ' Moreover, 
I will raise up fishers and they shall fish them, and then I 
will raise up hunters and they shall hunt them in every 
place where they have been driven in the dark and cloudy 
day.'^ Now, who are these fishers and hunters Jeremiah, 
as God's prophet, tells us of. It ovight to be known that for 
over a hundred years there has been a society and a college 
in Halle, in Germany, where Jewish converts to Chris- 
tianity have been educated for missionaries among the Jews, 
and that these Jewish converts and missionaries have, for 
at least seventy-five years, gone everywhere in the known 
world, preaching the gospel to their countrymen in every 
language under heaven — and we forget the wonderful 
advantage that the Jew, as a* Jew, has by their dispersion. 
They know every language in the world, and the Jews can 
preach in every language ; and then add to this tire fact 
that in A. T). 1800 the English Jewish Society was formed, and 
from it thousands of converted missionaries have gone forth, 
and for sixty years at least have been preaching Christ 
crucified to their brethren. One of them came to my house 
in Western New York, twenty years ago, who had been a 
missionary for fifty years to the Jews— he studied in that 



80 Scripture Prophecy. 



Jewish college in Halle, in Germany. He had traveled, as 
a missionary, all over Europ^e and into many provinces of 
Asia; he was eighty-four years old — Old Father Frey. 
Says God, Ezekiel, 36 : 24 : For I will take you from among 
the heathen and gather you out of all countries, and will 
bring you into your own land ; 37th verse : Thus saith the 
Lord God, I will yet for this be inquired of by the house 
of Israel to do it for them ; 50,000 converted Jews daily 
inquiring of God to do this for them, and the conditions 
are surely met. We now return to ask what those dry 
bones were commanded to hear? Answer: The word of the 
Lord. So they have, if they wish. We have now in this 
vision an exact order of the events as they have taken place 
and are to take place in the restoration and organization 
and final conversion of the Jews. Let us see ; Ezekiel says, 
O, ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord, and as I 
prophesied I heard a noise (of the missionary preaching 
that word of the Lord to the Jews,) and then a shaking, (an 
agitation of the Jewish mind all over the world, from 1865 
to 1868). Reports were made from all the countries of Europe 
and from many in Asia, through those Jewish societies, 
that at thset time there was the most singular and extensive 
agitation in the Jewish mind among the Jewish people that 
has been known for 1,700 years. They had suddenly lost 
confidence in their ancient guides, they were deceived by 
modern leaders, their deliverer did not come to their relief. 
And jaow, as out on a dark tempestuous sea, in a terrific 
storm (which they see gathering), with chart and compass 
gone and rudder broken and pilot overboard, what shall, 
what can they do? That was just the condition of the 
Jewish mind from 1865 to 1868, — a shaking. And then bone 
coming to bone, — the Jews returning to Palestine, for they 
are returning by tens of thousands, and so also are they 



Fourth Lecture. 81 



building. I saw, some months since, an intelligent Pres- 
byterian minister, who had traveled in that country. He 
told nae it was no longer a question about their return, they 
are already going back. An immensely wealthy Jew, now 
very aged, has been for twenty years buying every foot of 
land he could all round Jerusalem and building houses and 
colonizing Jews. The name of Sir Moses Montefiore is 
known the world over. Then here is Ezekiel's bone com- 
ing to bone. By and by when they are gathered in sufficient 
force and have complete legal possession of that country 
(and the E-othchilds have had a mortgage on it of fifty 
millions of dollars since the Crimean war, and now Disraeli 
has taken possession of it in the name and by the sanction 
of the British government), as soon then as in the provi- 
dence of God it is proper, they will organize a Jewish civil 
government at Jerusalem, and then will Ezekiel's sinews 
and flesh and skin be fully accomplished in anorganic condi- 
tion as Jews, but not converted to Christianity, and when 
so organized, as Micah says of them, 7 : 16 : The nations 
shall see and be confounded at all their might, for they will, 
under the name of God, organize the strongest government 
in the world. Let us look once more at Ezek. 37 — The two 
sticks. Ezekiel was commanded to take two sticks and put 
them together and make them one stick, and then told that 
they represented the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 
and that the putting them together represented the union 
of those two nations on the mountains of Israel ; 37 : 21 : 
and say unto them. Thus saith the Lord God, behold, I 
will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, 
whether they be gone, and will gather them on every side 
and bring them into their own land, and I will make them 
one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and 
one king shall be one king to them all, and they shall be 



82 Scripture Prophecy. 



no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two 
kingdoms any more at all; 24th verse, And David, my 
servant, shall be kingoverthem, and they shall all have one 
shepherd ; they shall also walk in my judgments and observe 
my statutes and do them, and they shall dwell in the land 
that I have given to Jacob, m^^ servant, wherein your fathers 
have dwelt, and they shall dwell therein, even they and 
their children, and their children's children forever ; and 
my_servant, David, shall be their prince forever. Moreover, 
I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an 
everlasting covenant with them ; and I will place them and 
multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of 
them forevermore ; my tabernacle also shall be with them, 
yea, I will be their God and they shall be my people, and 
the heathen shall know that I, the Lord, do sanctify Israel, 
when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forever- 
more. As we have shown, the Jews commenced gathering 
under the sixth vial of wrath poured out to destroy the 
Turkish power in 1820, and that the three evil spirits 
commence to fulfill their evil mission under the sixth vial 
is also true. One thing more regarding the Jews it is 
necessary to say at this point. They are going back to-day 
and to continue to back as Jews, not as Christians, not one 
Christian Jew in one hundred is at the i^resent time going 
back, but they are going back on the faith that Jesus of 
Nazereth is the Jewish Messiah to restore the kingdom to 
Israel ; and to-day there are thousands of Jews looking for 
Jesus, the Christian's Savior, but they are not looking to 
him as such, still they are looking for him to return 
and restore their nation to its sovereign power — and so, 
indeed, he will. About twenty years ago the Presbyterian 
board of foreign missions sent to Constantinople a mission- 
ary by the name of Goodell ; about five years ago he wrote 



Fourth Lecture. 83 

; 
home, saying, *' I often meet the Jewish Rabbi of this place, 

and when I meet him I accost him, Well, Rabbi, what do 
you think of Jesus of Nazareth? He answers by saying. 
And what do you think of him? I say. He is the Jewish 
Messiah. I met him the other day he says, and said to 
him. Well, Rabbi, what do you think of Jesus of Nazareth ? 
He answered. And what do you think of him? I say, Heis 
the Jewish Messiah. I think so too, he replied, and if you 
will give us Jews protection, I will bring you 10,000 Jews 
that will say the same thing:— just showing the condition 
of the Jewish mind.' ^ 

We have already called attention to the fact that the 
three unclean spirits, like frogs, commenced their mission 
under the sixth vial of wrath. Let us see what is revealed 
about them. Revelations 16: 18-14: And I saw three 
unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the 
dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the 
mouth of the false prophet ; for they are the spirits of 
devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of 
the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the bat- 
tle of that great day of God Almighty. These three spirits 
are the types of three systems of false religion which have 
filled the world ; and the first spirit came out of the mouth 
of the dragon ; the dragon was Paganism. This spirit 
then represents forms of Pagan worship, a system denying 
a supernatural, miracle-working God, interposing in 
human affairs, and worships simply nature or a god of law 
and order. Its votaries are the Neologists, Darwinists, 
Evolutionists and Materialists ; and the mission of that 
first devilish spirit is to gather all the votaries of that sys- 
tem and the kings that endorse it, to that great battle of 
God Almighty. The second spirit went out of the mouth 
of the beast. This spirit symbolizes Catholicism, and the 



84 Scripture Prophecy. 



mission of that spirit is to gather all the votaries of Catholi- 
cism, together with the kings that adopt it, to that battle. 
This type of religion is seen in the wonderful activity of the 
Jesuits and the remarkable vitality of Catholicism. The 
third spirit is a symbol of Mahometanism, a system that 
proposed the gratification of the basest appetites and pas- 
sions of the human heart as rewards for religious services 
here in this life, and a sensual paradise hereafter as our 
final home. The office of the third spirit is to gather the 
votaries o f this type of religion to that great battle, and 
the kings that endorse it. This system may be seen in 
Mormonism and Spiritualism. The importance and sig- 
nificance then of tracing carefully the little horn of the 
third beast is, that it produced a system of false religion that 
for 1200 years crushed half of the eastern world into the 
dust with its iron heel in the name of religion, and is to be 
projected into that great battle as an active element. So 
also of the little horn of the fourth beast ; it projected 
Satan^s masterpiece, or as Paul calls it, **The mystery of 
iniquity.'' It, too, is to be an element in that battle ; so 
also the old system of nature-worship will be an element 
there. We have said these spirits started on their mission 
under the sixth vial, but the battle is not to be fought till 
the close of the seventh. 

THE SEVENTH VIAL OP WRATH. 

And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air ; 
and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven 
from the throne, saying: ''It is done;" and there were 
voices and thunders, and lightnings, and there was a great 
earthquake, such as there was not since men were upon the 
earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. This is the 
last vial of wrath, and in chapter 15, verse 1, we are told 



Fourth Lecture. 85 

that the seven vials fill the wrath of God. We now come 
to ask, has the seventh vial of wrath been poured out ? and 
we answer, yes, in the last French revolution, in 1848 ; as 
the first French revolution in 1789 was the first vial. 

It has been pat^t to the world that the most bitter 
tyrants, with a spirit of grasping after absolute power over 
the bodies and souls of their subjects, have been the popes 
of Rome, and the last men on earth to yield what they had 
grasped. And so at the beginning of 1848 the world was 
startled to hear from the late occupant of the papal throne 
the announcement that he would grant his subjects en- 
largement of privileges. No sooner was the announcement 
made than his subjects sprung to their feet more suprised 
than the rest of the world. And the masses of the Papal 
States arose with a tide and swell of popular feelings and 
expectation that it was impossible to suppress, without 
some gratification at least. The subjects of the Sardinian 
king compelled him to grant them a new constitution with 
enlarged privileges. The pope mitigated many of the rigors 
of his predecessors ; and one general swell of expectancy of 
a higher enjoyment of civil and religious privileges swept 
over the whole of Italy, which no doubt did much towards 
preparing the way for the liberties the Italians now enjoy. 
But this earthquake tide rushed with all its accumulated 
force upon that tyrant power of Austria. At that time at 
th*e head of Austrian affairs was one of the most far-reach- 
ing minds, and one of the most consummate diplomatists ; 
and he boasted that there never had been an un rising of 
the masses he had not been able to suppress. But when 
this wave of public sentiment, like a mighty billow of the 
sea, swept over the house of Austria he left his seat as 
prime minister vacant, with a vacated throne, and both 
the prime minister and his monarch were fleeing across the 



86 Scripture Prophecy. 



continent in a close carriage to save their precious lives, 
and the people left to take care of themselves. But not- 
withstanding such results had followed that earthquake 
south of the Alps, no one supposed its influence would ex- 
tend over them, and if so, least of all be felt in France. 
France had at that time on the throne Louis Phillip, as he 
was termed, the citizen king, who had been an exile in our 
country, and had mingled with the common masses more 
than the crowned heads of Europe are wont to, moreover, 
at his elevation he pledged the people a liberal reign. But 
no sooner was he fairly seated on the throne than he began 
to gather around himself all the elements of absolute power, 
and begirt his throne with the engines of tyranny ; he had 
allied the throne of France with all the crowned heads of 
Europe, in offensive and defensive treaties, so that a com- 
bination of power should siDeedily crush any rising of his 
subjects. He had fortified Paris as no other city was ; had 
gathered within its walls 80,000 of the best troops of the 
line, and the best disciplined, with one hundred of the 
heaviest ordnance that could be secured, and all to meet 
just such an emergency as came on in February, 1848. 
That wave of the uprising of the people against their 
tyrants bounded like a tornado over the Alps, scattered the 
ensigns of royalty, paralyzed the arm of 80,000 disciplined 
troops, silenced that hundred cannon, nerved the arm of 
the people and braved their hearts, so that in three days 
the Tuilleries were riddled of their contents from garret to 
cellar, and the furniture of the French monarch's palace 
was taken into the streets and dashed in pieces and burned, 
and the monarch and his family fleeing for their lives ; 
and all this without blood ; and well does the revelator say : 
There was never such an earthquake, such a revolution, 
since men were put upon the earth. And well does Dr. 



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Wayland, of Brown University, say : All the campaigns 
of Napoleon Bonaparte sink into utter insignificance in 
comparison with this scene of three day's revolution, in its 
influence on the human mind. Never before in the history 
of man were the shackles by which it had been bound so 
suddenly and so extensivtly broken at once, and the mind 
left free to act for itself. An earthquake, as we have 
repeatedly seen, is a symbol of revolution, political, relig- 
ious, social or monetary, or all combined ; and let any one 
say if we are not, since 1848, living in a period of revolu- 
tion. 

Following this, in 1848, was the Crimean war in 1853 
to 1856 ; following that, our terrible war ; then the Franco- 
Prussian ; then this last Russian and Turkish ; then in 
business houses and banks, in social matters and in every 
department of human interests revolution is indeed the 
order of the day. Under this seventh and last vial is to be 
the last great contest in the battle of Armageddon, which 
shall decide the fate of this world. Is that to be a positive, 
literal battle? and if so, what power is to lead in it? and 
what forces to be engaged on each side, to progress and 
terminate in the overthrow of the Gentile powers ? 

Having proved to the reader that the order of events, 
commencing with the pouring out of the sixth vial of 
wrath, in 1820, in the destruction of the Turkish power, is 
the restoration of the Jews following, and the three un- 
clean spirits commencing their mission, the Jews estab- 
lished as a nation till the nations are confounded at their 
might, and they are rich in goods, in cattle, in gold and 
silver and dwelling at ease. And now in the last end of 
the indignation, just at the close of the Gentile reign and 
probation, still under the seventh vial of wrath, some greai 
political power comes up upon the mountains of Israel to 



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destroy the Jews and take their spoil and territory, what 
would it be ? . 

Let us ask if God has told us anything about it in his 
word. Turn then, first, to Ezekiel, cliapters 38, 39. 

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying : Son 
of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the 
chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against 
him, and say, Thus saith the Lord God, behold, I am 
against tliee, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal ; 
and I will turn thee back, etc. Let us now enquire who 
this power addressed is; or all will be dark and confused, 
whatever we may say. We have here the names of three 
sons of Japheth, and in the order in which they are found 
in the book of Genesis, chapter 10 : and we are told that 
Gog is a land, and the land of Magog ; Magog was brother 
of both the others mentioned, and it would seem they set- 
tled near together somewhere. Josephus tells us, they 
settled in the northern country, on the borders of the Black 
and Caspian seas. It is fortunate for us we have the family 
name of Meshech preserved from the earliest ages of their 
settlement, in their most ancient and sacred seat — in the 
city of Moscow — so says Josephus, so says Dean Stanley, 
who traveled through that whole country, and then wrote 
the history of that Eastern or Greek Church ; and we have 
also the name of Tubal preserved in the city of Tobolsk, 
in Russia. Thus, one can clearly identify two of the three 
names with modern people. Who, then, is the other Ma- 
gog chief prince. Now, Mr. Wm. Smith, in his dictionary, 
translates the word chief in this passage, and Dr. Conant, in 
his notes on Genesis, adopts it — Rosh, prince of Meshech and 
Tubal. Now we know from Rosh came Russians. Then, if 
this be correct, we might read it, Rosh, prince of Meshech 
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tribes of meu, in all the past ages; and they never had any 
permanent local nationality until, in the tenth century of the 
Christian era, Rosh gathered them into a permanent form, 
and since that time they have been advancing in national 
power and importance; and now, without doubt, are the 
people called Russians so that the chief or leading power at 
tlie head of those three families is Russia. Now, can it be 
doubted Russia is ambitious? In 1453 the Turks, in fulfill- 
ment of theil* mission to kill the third part of men, took 
Constantinople, and thus destroyed the Grecian empire. 
In 1497, Ivan Bosaloski, the czar of Russia, married the 
princess Sophia, the niece of the last ruling emperor of that 
Grecian empire; and from that hour has claimed that 
whole empire as the patrimony of Sophia, and of conse- 
quence belonging to the czar, or sovereign of Russia, 
with Constantinople as the capital. There is, then, little 
room to doubt that Russia is meant in the prophecy by the 
prince of Meshech and Tubal. Turn again, then, to Ezekiel, 
chapter 38 : 4th v.: And I will put hooks into thy jaws ; and 
I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horse- 
men; all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great 
company ; with bucklers and shields, all of them handling 
swords— Persia, Ethiopia and Libya with them — all of 
them with shield and helmet ; Gomer and all his bands ; 
the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his 
bands, and many people with thee. Be thou prepared, and 
prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are as- 
sembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. After 
many days thou shalt be visited ; in the latter years thou 
shalt come into the land that is brought back from the 
sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the 
mountains of Israel, which have been always waste ; but 
it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell 



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safely all of them. Thou (Russia) shalt ascend and come 
like a storm ; thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land ; 
thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. Thus 
saith the Lord God : It shall also come to pass that, at the 
same tinae shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt 
think an evil thought ; and thou shalt say : I will go up to the 
land of un walled villages ; I will go to them that are at rest, 
that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, having 
neither bars nor gates, to take a spoil, and to take a prey ; to 
turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now 
inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the 
nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell 
in the midst of the land. Sheba and Dedan, and the mer- 
chants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall 
say unto thee : Art thou come to take a spoil ? hast thou 
gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver 
and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great 
spoil ? In this last war between Turkey and Russia, Russia 
had honestly conquered Turkey, and set down before a con- 
quered city. During that war England only set back like a 
cross lion, and growled, displeased with what was done 
or was not done ; and even after the war was ended, and a 
congress was called of the nations to divide the spoils, even 
then England refused to have aught to do in the matter till 
— till what! During that war Disraeli, that shrewd diplo- 
matic Jew, with all the authority of the British nation, had 
been making a secret treaty with Turkey, to put his hands 
on the whole Turkish power for England ; and then, when 
that treaty was completed, England sent her iron clads 
into the Bosphorus to fulfill that prophecy. The mer- 
chants of Tarshish are to-day acknowledged the East India 
merchants, and England the young lion, with her diplo- 
mist, who said to Russia : art thou come to take a spoil, to 



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take a prey, to carry away great spoil ? More apposite lan- 
guage could not be put into the mouth of England than 
Ezekiel thus — in this one verse — put into her mouth in her 
dealings with Russia, in the settlement of this last war : 
Ezekiel 38: 14— twenty-four hundred years ago,— There- 
fore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the 
Lord God : In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth 
safely, shalt thou not know it? and thou shalt come 
from thy place out of the north parts, thou and many 
people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great 
company and a mighty army ; and thou shalt come up 
against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land ; it 
shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my 
land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be 
sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. Thus saith the 
Lord God : Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time 
by my servants, the prophets of Israel, which prophesied 
in those days many years that I would bring thee against 
them. And it shall come to pass at the same time when 
Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord 
God, that my fury shall come up in my face. For in my 
jealousy, and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken ; 
surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the 
land of Israel so that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of 
heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things 
that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon 
the face of the earth, shall shake at my iDresence; and the 
mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall 
fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. And I will 
call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, 
saith the Lord God ; every man's sword shall be against 
his brother ; and I will plead against him with pestilence 
and with blood; and I will rain upon him and upon his bands, 



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and upon the many people that are with him, an overflow- 
ing rain, and great hailstones, fire and brimstone. Thus will 
I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known 
in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I 
am the Lord. Isaiah, 66 : 15, 16, gives some additional par- 
ticulars regarding that battle: *'For behold the Lord will 
come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to 
render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of 
fire. For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with 
all fiesh; and the slain of the Lord shall be many. Joel, 
chapter 3, For behold, in those days, and at that time, when 
I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 
I will gather all nations and bring them down into the 
valley of Jehoshaphat, and plead with them there for my 
people, and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scat- 
tered among the nations and parted my land. Verse 9, 
Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, 
wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, 
let them come up. Beat your ploughshares into swords, 
and your pruning-hooks into spears ; let the weak say I am 
strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and 
gather yourselves together round about, thither cause thy 
mighty ones to come down, O, Lord. Let the heathen be 
wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat ; for 
there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put 
ye in the sickle for the harvest is ripe ; come, get you down ; 
for the press is full, for the fats overflow ; for their wickedness 
is great. . Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision ; for 
the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. We have 
already said this battle is to decide the controversy of Zion, 
and the great question of the ages, whether Christ or the 
Devil shall have this world, and as that battle decides the 
whole question, and is fought in the valley of Megiddo, 



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where Josiah, King of Judah was killed by Pharaoh Necho^ 
610 B. C. So this valley is now, by Ezekiel, called the 
valley of decision, because of this decisive battle. Joel 
continues : The sun and moon shall be darkened, and the 
stars shall withdraw their shining. The Lord also shall 
roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem ; and 
the heavens and the earth shall shake ; but the Lord will 
be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children 
of Israel. The reader can see there is to be a time of gen- 
eral war, so that the implements of husbandry are to be 
made into instruments for human destruction. So also, as 
when Babylon was to be destroyed, they were commanded 
to prepare for it ; it took long years to prepare to do that 
work, and it was a long time in being done. So also when 
the Turkish power was appointed to kill and overthrow the 
Greek Empire as the third part of men, it took nearly 300 
years to get ready, and more than that to do the work and 
finish up their mission. And now God is going to decide 
some questions that have been in controversy among men 
for all past ages. And it will take time to accomplish it ; 
God is not in any hurry. Said Paul, with regard to the 
rise of Catholicism, *'He that withholdeth will withhold 
till he be taken out of the way, that he might be revealed 
in his time.^' God^s honor is at stake, and he is going to 
vindicate his honor before the greatest gathered assembly 
that was ever gathered in this world, largely composed of 
heathen, mixed with skeptics and disbelieversin the super- 
natural, and vast multitudes of believers in every false sys- 
tem. And into the midst of that multitude will God stnd 
down and surround them with convulsions of nature, earth- 
quake, storm and tempest, fire and hail, and brimstone. 
These shall discomfort them ; then he says he will turn 
every man^s sword against his fellow, so distracted shall 



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they become. And just at this point Zechariah comes in 
with additional particulars, 12 chapter, 2 : Behold I will 
make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people 
round about, when they shall be in the siege, both against 
Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make 
Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people; all 
that burden themselves with it shall be cut to 
pieces, though all the people of the earth be 
gathered together against it. In that day, saith 
the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and 
his rider with madness, and I will open mine eyes upon the 
house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people 
with blindness ; and the governors of Judah shall say in 
their heart, the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my 
strength in the Lord of hosts their God, In that day I 
will make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire 
among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf, and 
they shall devour all the people round about, on the right 
hand and on the left ; and Jerusalem shall be inhabited 
again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. In that day 
shall the Lord defend the inhabitants, and he that is feeble 
among them at that day shall be like David, and the house 
of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before 
them ; and it shall come to pass in that day, I will seek to 
destroy all nations that come against Jerusalem. Zech. 14 : 
1, 2, 3: Behold the day of the Lord cometh, ahd 
thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee, for I will 
gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city 
shall be taken and the houses rifled and the women rav- 
ished, and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and 
the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city ; 
then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations 
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We have clearly showed you, that after the Jews re- 
turn to Judah, to the land given to Abraham, Isaac and 
Jacob, and have built up the old waste places, and repaired 
the ruins of many generations, they will organize so 
strongly that the prophet says, the nations shall be con- 
founded at their might. They now have riches in gold and 
silver, in cattle, etc., and then Russia will set up her claim 
to that entire territory, and Constantinoijle as th.e capital of 
a vast empire, and to enforce that claim, she brings u^^ 
with her Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer and all his bands, 
and the house of Togarmah and all his bands of the north 
quarters as political auxiliaries. 

Libya, or the Barbary States of Africa, bordering on the 
Mediterranean Sea. Gomer and all his bands. Gomer's de- 
scendants originally settled all the central and north of 
Europe, and was the father of all the Germanic tribes I 
think it pretty certain that all Germany will finally go over 
to Russia, and I am impressed that Germany will 
join with Russia against England in less than five 
years; if so, some revolutions will occur in 
Europe. But then the house of Togarmah and 
all his bands of the north quarters are also in the 
political confederacy, or subject nations. Togarmah was 
son of Gomer, so Gomer, Magog, Mesheck and Tubal all 
were brothers. But vast as that political combination is, 
that army are still to be augmented bj^ the vast multitude 
of votaries of those three types of religion, symbolized by 
the three spirits of devils. This would bring the descend- 
ants of Gomer in sympathy with that movement, as 
denying a supernatural overruling power. This will also 
bring the pope and his entire adherents into sympathy, 
under the leadership of the spirit coming out of the mouth 
^f the fe^ast ; and under the leadership of that spirit of the 



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devil coining out of the false prophet, or Mahomet, all his 
votaries will finally fall in line, and the Mormons and 
Spiritualists all will be in sympathy. That war will extend 
its ravages into different countries till all nations are sub- 
dued to Christ. This is the time wlien he shall overturn, 
overturn, overturn, until he shall reign whose right it is to 
reign. 



LECTURE FIFTH 



The Results of that Battle— The Fifth Great Monarchy and the Close 

of Time. 

T«ET us now look at some of the revealed results of that 
" great battle, and what follows. We must not forget 
the mission of the three unclean spirits — to go forth to the 
kings of the earth and the whole world to gather them to 
that great battle of God Almighty. It is well to look at 
those contending parties. On one side is Russia with Persia, 
Ethiopia, Libya, or the Barbar3^ States of Africa, Gomer 
and all his bands, or all central and northern Europe, and 
the house of Togarmah and all his bands of the north 
quarters, or the two Armenias, as the political auxiliaries, 
and added to this all the votaries of those three types of 
religion as symbolized by the three unclean spirits of devils. 
And on the other side, all true and earnest Christians, all 
the Jews, England, and perhaps America as a sympathising 
nation, and Jesus Christ as their captain and leader. 

God comes now to settle the controversy of Zion. The 
first revealed result of that battle is Zech. 14 : 2 : And the 
city shall be taken, the houses rifled and half of the city 
shall go forth into captivity. The invading; force at first 
are to gain decided advantages ; this is all the advantage 
recorded on the side of that immense invading force, with 
horses and horsemen and all sorts of weapons of war. 
Then in Ezekiel, 39 : 2 : God says, and I will turn thee back 
and leave but the sixth part of thee ; I will smite thy bow 
out of thy left hand and cause thine arrow to fall out of thy 

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right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, 
thou and all thy bands and the people that is with thee. I 
will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to 
the beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon 
the open field, for I have spoken it saith the Lord God. A 
complete destruction of five-sixths of that vast army on the 
mountains of Israel. Another result is, the employment 
of the whole Jewish nation burying the dead slain in the 
battle. And then there is left on that battlefield, weapons 
of war to serve the Jewish nation for fuel for seven years ; 
so that ** they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut 
down any out of the forest.'' And now in turn the Jews 
shall rob those that robbed them, and spoil those that 
spoiled them ; and they shall leave on the ground, or on the 
dead carcasses, gold and silver and apparel in great abund- 
ance,, to enrich the Jews. Another result is, that the heathen 
know the Lord after that battle. Ezek. 39 : 21 : And I will 
set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall 
see my judgment which I have executed and my hand that 
I have laid upon them. So the house of Israel shall know 
that I am the Lord their God, from that day and forward. 
Another result of that battle is, the distress of the Jews, 
and their looking to God ; he pours upon them the miracu- 
lous power of the Spirit and some sign or token of the Son 
of Man, and all the Jews mourn under the conviction that 
they have crucified their own Messiah, which brings them 
to repentence and a miraculous conversion ensues. Then, 
during that battle, Christ sets his feet on Mt. Olivet, as by 
Zech., 14: 4: And his feet shall stand on the Mt. of Olives. 
Another immediate result will be that the ten tribes will be 
gathered, and the sovereign power restored to the Jews. At 
the conclusion of this battle Jesus will cut off all wicked 
nations, organizations and men, for he says, Math. 13: 



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He will send forth his angels and gather out of his king- 
dom all that offend and them that do iniquity, and cast them 
into a furnace of fire. Then shall the righteous shine forth 
as the sun in the kingdom of my father. Jesus now having 
taken to pieces all the four great Gentile powers, represented 
by Nebuchadnezzar's image, they are blown away and no 
place is found for them, and now he comes back as the 
returning nobleman, to establish that fifth great monarchy, 
symbolized by the stone cut out of the mountain without 
hands. 

But is there to be a literal kingdom as the fifth domin- 
ion. First, we ask, what objection can be brought against 
understanding the stone kingdom, or the kingdom symbol- 
ized by the stone, to be a literal, positive kingdom of earth, 
any more than against either of the other four. All and 
each of them have been literal, very literal kingdoms. Can 
any objection be raised on account of the symbol, a stone or 
rock? I apprehend that was purposely chosen, and that 
there is in it a special significance. Can any objection lie 
in view of the time it rises, as the last of the five, or after 
the four Gentile powers had risen and been in turn sup- 
planted by its fellow ? Surely if a permanent organization 
as a sovereign power was to arise, and there were to be 
four temporary or transient ones occupying the same space, 
it would of necessity be the last of the five else it could 
not be permanent. And so it occupies the only space in 
time it could. There is a difficulty to some good, earnest 
christians, and even some ministers of this kind ; we are 
told the God of heaven set up his kingdom in the days of 
John the Baptist and Jesus Christ, and if he set it up 1800 
years ago, how can, or will He set it up now? He did set 
it up in the days of John and Jesus, and men pushed into 
it, as a religious organization, and that kingdom was es- 



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tablished in the renewed heart. And so it has been ever 
since, in every regenerate heart. And if we are not told 
of any other sense in which the Kingdom of God is to be 
established, and of no other time when it is to have special 
prominence, then the question should be settled and re- 
main so. But while we have the stone cut out of the 
mountain without hands, it is then the kingdom of the God 
of heaven as certainly, though not as fully, as after it had 
broken the image to pieces. And this is just the difference 
as given us by the inspired record ; it rolls to and fro, but 
after it has smitten the image it fills the whole world. It 
will smite all worldly powers at Armageddon, not before, 
because we are told in Daniel 2 : 44 : That it was the king- 
dom the God of heaven set up that was to break all these 
other Gentile and worldly kingdoms, and then, and not 
till then, was it to fill the whole earth. As long as those 
worldly kingdoms lasted, therefore, it could not be set up 
in a sovereign sense, and, says Daniel, it shall stand for- 
ever. And then in chapter 7 : 13, 14 : The son of man re- 
ceives his kingdom of the ancient of days, and there was 
given him dominion and glory, and a kingdom, that all 
people, nations and languages should serve him ; his do- 
minion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass 
away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. 
So that we have as clearly revealed to us that there will be a 
fifth great literal monarchy established on earth at the 
close of the time of the Gentiles, as of either of the pre- 
ceeding, and much more permanent and comprehensive. 
Another difficulty I find in some good men and ministers : 
How is the present scene to close and the next to open ? I 
have shown the present dispensation of the Gentiles is to 
close with the most terrific battle scenes, and possibly wide 
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times to be ushered in by the personal return of Christ to 
our world, with all the saints with him to establish a uni- 
versal kingdom of saints, and himself in person reign on 
David's throne and over the house of Israel forever, or as 
long as the sun endure. Language cannot make it more 
explicit or full, that the kingdom symbolized by the stone, 
is to fill the whole earth and last forever. Then is Christ 
coming back to earth again, and has he a promise to sit on 
David's throne ? And is David's throne to be in Jerusalem ? 
Let lis first look at Peter's talk to the Jews on the day of 
pentecost: Men and brethren, let me freely speak to you 
of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, 
and his sepulcher is with us until this day. Therefore, he 
being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an 
oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins according to the 
flesh, he would raise uj) Christ to sit on his throne. He 
seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ. 
Here is God's oath to David to raise up the humanity of 
Christ out of the grave to sit on his throne. This looks 
pretty strong. Where is that oath recorded ? In 2nd 
Samuel, 7 : 12, 16. Said God to David : And when thy days 
be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will 
raise up thy seed after thee who shall proceed out of thy 
bowels, and I will establish his kingdom, and thy throne 
and thy kingdom will I establish forever. Now Peter says, 
David as a prophet knew that God spake of Christ's hu- 
manity, and that with an oath, He promised to David He 
should sit on his throne. What did Gabriel mean when he 
said to Mary, thou shalt bring forth a son, and shall call 
his name Jesus ; he shall be great and shall be son of the 
Highest, and the Lord God shall give to him the throne of 
his father David, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob 
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God's oath to David, that his throne is to endure forever, 
and that he shall have a son to sit on it; then a son (Jesus, 
son of Mary) is produced, and he is promised that throne 
by Gabrieh I would like to know if there is any failure 
in this matter. But Isaiah has something to say about this 
matter ; Isaiah 9 ; 6, 7 : To us a child is born, a son is given 
etc., the government shall be upon his shoulders, of the in- 
crease of his government and peace there shall be no end, 
upon. the throne of David to order it and establish it, from 
henceforth and forever. Jeremiah, 33, says : Behold the 
days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform that good 
thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel, and 
to the house of Judah. In those days and at that time will 
I cause the branch of righteousness 4.0 grow up unto David, 
and He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the 
land. For thus saith the Lord, David shall never want a 
man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel. 

We have already seen that after God told Ezekiel he 
would gather the people of Israel and make them one 
nation on the mountains of Israel, and multi]3ly them for- 
evermore, he said : And David my servant shall be king 
over them, and my servant shall be their prince forever. 
So in the 2d Psalm, David sees in a vision down the vista 
of a thousand years the heathen (the Romans) raging, and 
the people (the Jews) imagining a vain thing, (to cut off 
Christ and kill his influence.) [They combined when Christ 
was to be crucified ; Herod and Pilate were made friends, 
notwithstanding the crucifixion.] Yet have I set my King 
on my holy hill of Zion. Ask of me and I shall give thee 
the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of 
the earth for thy possession ; thou shalt break them with a 
rod of iron, thou shalt dash them to pieces like a potter^s 
vessel. Kings and judges are cautioned to submit to this 



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king, lest they j)erish when his wrath is kindled but a 
little. 

Let us hear what David says in the 72d Psalm : Give 
the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto 
the king^s son. Now ho one can be the king's son but 
Christ, as described in this psalm, nor do we need any one 
else to fill up the prediction. He shall judge thy people 
with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment ; they 
shall fear thee (the king's son) as long as the sun and moon 
endure, throughout all generations ; in his days shall the 
righteous flourish, and abundance of peace so long as the 
moon endureth ; he shall have dominion also from sea to 
sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth ; yea, all 
kings shall fall down before him, all nations shall serve 
him ; his name shall endure forever ; his name shall be 
continued as long as the sun ; and men shall be blessed in 
him ; all nations shall call him blessed. 

Again, let us look at the 89th Psalm : I will sing of 
the mercies of the Lord forever ; with my mouth will I 
make known thy faithfulness to all generations ; I have 
made a covenant with my chosen ; I have sworn unto 
David my servant, thy seed will I establish forever, and 
build up thy throne to all generations ; once have I sworn 
by my holiness that I will not lie unto David ; his seed shall 
endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me ; it shall 
be established forever as the moon and as a faithful witness 
in heaven. In the 132d Psalm that oath is again repeated : 
The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not 
turn from it ; of the fruit of thy body will I set on thy 
throne ; for the Lord hath chosen Zion, he hath desired it 
for his habitation ; there will I make the horn (or power) 
of David to bud, (or expand) ; I have ordained a lamp for 
mine anointed ; his enemies will I clothe with shame, but 



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upon himself shall his crown flourish. When the Re- 
deemer was about to leave his disciples he told them he 
would come back again ; and then as he left the temple 
for the last time, some one of his disciples called his atten- 
tion to the buildings and stones. Yes, said he, do ye see all 
these ? The time will come when there shall not be left 
pne stone upon a stone that will not be thrown down. Then 
when four or five of them were sitting with Jesus on the 
Mount of Olives, over against the temple, Matthew said 
unto him : Master, tell us when shall these things be, 
Jerusalem destroyed ? (and they must understand the de- 
struction of the temple) ; and what shall be the sign of 
thy personal coming, and the end of the age or dispensa- 
tion? This is Dr. Hale's translation. Matthew used a 
word signifying personal presence; so does Paul constantly, 
speaking of the coming of Christ. We know the Apostles 
did the same, and all early christians, and for that matter, 
all christians, till in the sixteenth century, as shown in the 
preface. Paul had to caution the Thessalonian brethren 
on the subject. So Jesus had to correct the mistakes of the 
disciples, but not an intimation by Paul on any mistake in 
looking for his personal return. For after Jesus was gone, 
and left the disciples on the morn of ascension, what did 
the two angels say ? that he was not coming back to this 
world? What a quietus such a declaration from those 
angels would have put on the expectation of the disciples 
and of the church. But just what did they say ? That 
same Jesus whom ye have seen go into heaven shall so 
come, as ye have seen him go into heaven. Did the angels 
kuow that they saw him go personally, literally and 
bodily ? And yet hundreds of his ministers, preaching 
his gospel, are stoutly denying that he is personally com- 
ing just as he went into heaven. They say he is coming 



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back spiritually. Poor souls, had Jesus not been better 
than their faith, with the Bible in their hands, the churches 
and all true religion would have died out of the world ages 
ago. No, he never left the earth spiritually, for he prom- 
ised to be spiritually with his people everywhere, where 
two or three should be gathered, from his ascension to his 
return. If he is not coming, what language of mockery 
for Paul to say in communion, You do show forth the Lord's 
death till he come ; if he is not coming. Or to the Thes- 
salonians, that when they turned from idols they learned 
to serve the living God, and to wait for his son from heaven, 
even Jesus ; if Jesus is not coming back. Peter said to the 
Jews on Pentecost: Let all the house of Israel know 
assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye 
crucified, both Lord and Christ. 

Let us now look a little farther and see what Zechariah 
says more about him. We have seen that, in 14: 4, he tells 
us that during that great battle, And his feet shall stand in 
that day upon the Mt. of Olives, which is before Jerusalem 
on the east. Verse 10: And the Lord shall be King over 
all the earth ; in that day there shall be one Lord, and his 
name one. 16 : And it shall come to pass, that every one 
that is left of all the nations which come against Jerusalem, 
shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the 
Lord of hosts, and to keej? the feast of tabernacles. This is 
in harmony with Isaiah, 66: 23. And it shall come to pass 
that, from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath 
to another, shall all flesh come to worshijD before me, saith 
the Lord. That same Jesus whom God made Lord and 
Christ, whom the Jews crucified, is to be Lord over all the 
earth and for ever. We have also said that when Christ 
returns all the saints are to return with him, to participate 
in that glorious kingdom of the saints. It is difficult, some- 



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times, to tell how certain views should be set on foot ; so of 
the idea or doctrine of the resurrection of the righteous at 
the coming of Christ, or before the resurrection of the 
wicked. How came that doctrine to be propagated, if not 
true? It is hardly likely that wicked men would teach 
such a doctrine; and it is quite unlikely that good men would 
forge such a doctrine. Then let us look into the word of 
God, and see if there is anything there that would lead any 
one to suspect it was true. In the 37th Psalm David con- 
trasts the righteous and the wicked. David begins that 
Psalm with : Fret not thyself with evildoers, neither be 
thou envious at the workers of iniquity, for they shall soon 
be ciit down like the grass, and wither like the green herb ; 
implying there is nothing permanent about them ; that 
they are transient. Then he contrasts with the wicked 
and workers of iniquity, those who trust in God and 
delight in him, as forming a character and condition of per- 
manence, 9th Verse: For evildoers shall be cut off: But^ 
those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength ; 
and they shall inherit the earth. 11 : But the meek shall 
inherit the earth, and delight themselves in the abundance 
of peace. This certainly implies that the righteous are to 
longer enjoy and occupy this world than the wicked, and 
after the wicked are destroyed from off the earth. We will 
not stop now to ask what is to become of the wicked ; or 
where they are to be when the righteous are enjoying such 
an abundance of peace themselves, when the wicked are 
no more. In the 18th verse, we are told that the inheritance 
of the righteous shall be for ever. The same is said in the 
22d verse. Again, in the 29th verse, The righteous shall 
inherit the land and dwell therein forever. In the 34th 
verse we are told, those that wait on the Lord he will ex- 
alt to inherit the land, and that they shall see the wicked 



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cut off. The whole tenor of this Psalm does imply that, 
after all wicked men and wickedness is cut off from the 
earth, then the righteous are to possess it, and live a very- 
long time in peaceful enjoyment. It does not say any thing 
about whether those of the righteous that have died shall 
live again or not; it simply says the righteous, which 
would rather imply the whole. Says Jesus — Matthew, 5 : 
5, Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. 
Again he says, at the end of this age or dispensation, as is 
translated by many of the best scholars : says Jesus, He 
shall send forth his angels and sever the wicked from 
among the just and cast them in a furnace of fire, there 
shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the 
righteous shine forth as the sun in the Kingdom of my 
Father. In the 50th Psalm, we are told that the saints are 
to be gathered at the coming of our God. Our God shall 
come ; gather my saints together unto me : those that have 
made a covenant with me by sacrifice. The sacrifice of God 
is a broken and contrite heart. In Isaiah 26, he is saying 
what trouble the children of Israel are in, ruled over by 
other lords, and their great distress in the time of their 
calamity (at the battle of Armageddon) ; and he says, to 
comfort them, in verse 19, Thy dead men shall live; to- 
gether with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and 
sing, ye that dwell in the dust, for thy den is as the den of 
herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Here is cer- 
tainly a resurrection of dead men ; there is no chance for 
doubt, for they are God's dead men, living again. No am- 
biguity — no figure. A positive assertion, Thy dead men 
shall live. But next let us look at Zech. 14 : 5, as we have 
already noticed it: And the Lord my God shall come, and 
all the saints with thee. All the saints are coming with 
Christ, at his second coming, during that great battle of 
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108 Scripture Prophecy. 

One possible objection to this view of this passage can 
be taken. It says: "The Lord our God shall come.'^ 
But that objection can hardly hold when we hear Isaiah 
say in 43 : 11 : I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there 
is no Savior. This doctrine of the return of the saints with 
the coming of our God is certainly an old testament doc- 
trine. Let us see if it is also the doctrine of the new. Paul, 
in his great argument on the resurrection, tells us what the 
condition of things would be if Christ was not risen. As 
he says, some among you say there is no resurrection of 
the dead ; then, rising to the dignity of his argument, he 
says : *' But now is Christ risen from the dead and become 
the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came 
death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 
But every man in his own order, Christ the first fruits ; 
afterwards they that are Christ's (disciples) at his coming.^' 
A more positive assertion cannot be framed into language, 
declaring the resurrection of the saints at Christ's second 
coming. Again, 1st Thessalonians, 2 : 19 : For what is our 
hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not ye (Thessa- 
lonians) in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his 
coming ? Paul thus tells the Thessalonians that they will 
be in the presence of Christ at his coming. Then in chap- 
ter 3d, 13th he says : "To the end he may establish your 
hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, 
at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ ; at his personal 
coming." For so it reads, (Parousia), signifying personal 
presence. Chapter 4 : 14 : For if w^e believe that Jesus 
died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus 
will God bring with him. 2d Thessalonians, 2 : 1. Now 
we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord 
Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him. 
See also Rev., 5th. John saw in the right hand of him that 



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sat on the throne, a book written within and on the back 
side, sealed with seven seals. And though an angel called 
for some one to open the book and loose the seals, none was 
found able, and John wept much. But one said to him, 
weep not, the Lion of the tribe of Judah hath prevailed to 
open the book and loose the seals thereof. And no sooner 
was it found that the seals could be opened than, it is said, 
and they sung a new song, saying, thou art worthy to take 
the book and to open the seals thereof ; for thou wast slain, 
and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every 
kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation ; and hast 
made us unto our God kings and priests ; and we shall 
reign on the earth. Turn then once more to Revelations, 
19: 11: And I saw Heaven open, and behold a white 
horse, and he that sat on him was called Faithful and True, 
and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 13: 
And his name is called The Word of God. 14 : And the 
armies which were in heaven followed him upon white 
horses, clothed in linen white and clean. We have already 
given you six or seven plain, positive declarations, that all 
the saints will return with Christ when he comes. And 
we have one more as positive. But in this passage we have 
the most beautiful symbolic representation of the same 
fact, that can be imagined. All the saints are represented 
as returning on white horses with Christ as he comes to 
set his feet on the spot from whence he ascended as he 
went into heaven. But the next passage to which we call 
attention is Rev. 20th chapter, 4th verse : And I saw thrones 
and they that sat upon them, and judgment was given 
unto them ; and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded 
for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which 
had not worshipped the beast neither his image, neither 
had received his mark upon their foreheads, nor in their 



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hands, and they Hved and reigned with Christ a thousand 
years ; but the rest of the dead lived not again until the 
thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrec- 
tion ; on such, the second death hath no power, but they 
shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with 
him a thousand years. Here then is the doctrine of two 
resurrections ; one of all the sleeping saints at the coming 
of Christ, and at the commencement of his reign of a 
thousand 3^ears. But the rest of the dead lived not again, 
till the last end of that reign. These are the wicked dead 
who remain in their graves daring the reign of Christ and 
the saints ; and after the thousand years are expired, Satan 
will be loosed. But as the wicked dead are left in their 
graves during that long reign of peace, so also Satan is to 
be bound. Rev. 20; 1, 2, 3: And I saw an angel come 
down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, 
and a great chain in his hand ; and he laid hold on the 
dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and 
bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bot- 
tomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him that 
he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand 
years should be fulfilled ; and after that he must be loosed 
for a little season. I know, as I have said in the introduc- 
tion to this little work, that our schoolmen do not endorse 
the doctrine of the two resurrections ; they say, the first 
resurrection is only the conversion of sinners. But in no 
passage of the word of God is the conversion of sinners 
called a resurrection ; and in the second place, wherever 
the term is used it refers to the resurrection of a dead 
physical body ; and so it cannot be applied to the conver- 
sion of sinners in any sense. But, secondly, we are told of 
men that had been beheaded, and so literally dead, living 



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again, and after living, reigning with Christ a thousand 
years on the earth. And so far as I know, none of the 
sinners who have been converted, have ever reigned with 
Christ on earth ; for as shown, his reign has not yet com- 
menced on earth, nor can it till all the four Gentile powers 
are broken in pieces by the kingdom the God of heaven 
was to establish and fill the whole earth. And it needs not 
much proof to an intelligent christian, that it has not oc- 
curred. The kingdom of the God of heaven is to be es- 
tablished in a sovereign sense, and then the saints shall re- 
turn by being raised from the dead, every man in his own 
order ; Christ the first fruits, (raised from the dead) says 
Paul ; afterwards, they that are Christ's (raised from the 
dead) at his coming. I have asked a number of persons 
who denied the first resurrection taught in the word of 
God, to supply that ellipsis with any other thought but 
the raising from the dead of Christ's, at his coming, and 
they have frankly acknowledged they could not. But 
once more. Suppose we accept the views of the spiritual- 
izing interpreters, and hold to one simultaneous, general 
resurrection of the righteous and the wicked. Then let us 
read it with that view, and let us say, this is the (general) 
resurrection ; on such the second death hath no power, 
but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall 
reign with Him a thousand years. We have then the 
whole race of man, on whom the second death hath no 
power, but reigning with Christ a thousand years, before 
Satan is loosed out of his prison. Or, clearly taught in the 
word of God universal salvation of all men at the general 
resurrection. Nor is it possible to escape the conclusion, 
who adopts the doctrine. 

Nor is this all ; for it is a flat contradiction of the dec- 
laration of God's word. For it expressly says, the rest of 



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the dead lived not again, till the thousand years^ reign of 
Christ and his saints are finished. The facts are as revealed 
clearly in God's book, if we are willing to take it as it 
reads : That at Christ's coming he gathers with him all 
the saints in the dispensation of the fulness of times, (of 
the Gentiles) as Jesus and Paul both call it, all in Christ, 
into one, (body) both who are in heaven and on earth ; 
even (that are) in him, Eph. 1 ; 10. The old serpent Satan, 
with whom through all the ages from everlasting, Christ 
has had that contest, is to be bound, and shut up and sealed, 
and the wicked to remain dead (lived not) during that 
thousand years ; when universal peace and righteousness 
shall prevail ; enjoyed by the entire body of saints who 
have lived, and those who shall live during the thousand 
years. And as we showed, God promised to replace the 
Jews on the mountains of Israel, and then to multiply 
them and their children, and their children's children for- 
ever and forever more, under the direction of one shepherd, 
(I reckon, the Good Shepherd,) and that God's servant 
David shall be their Prince forever. Then I suppose, if he 
m.ulti]3lies the Jews forever, and as all nations are to serve 
him, that he will also multiply the Gentiles and their 
children, and may be their children's children forever; for 
they are to serve him as long as the sun and moon endure. 
Then can we get any just idea or conception of the 
length of that reign of Christ with the saints? If it 
means a definite thousand years, then of course, that is the 
length of time. But is there anywhere in the chronological 
prophecies such a measure of a day for a day, and a year 
for a year? And we answer, not that we are aware of. 
But there is clearly revealed a symbolic system of a day 
for a year, and the only measurement we know of in the 
Bible ; and if that is the rule to interpret this passage, a 



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day for a year, then it is one thousand prophetic years ; 
each day for a year, or 360,000 years. I have been asked : 
how can the resurrected saints live here with those who 
live in the flesh ? Did not Jesus live with his disciples, 
with his resurrection body, forty days, without any special 
inconvenience ? And if he could live with them forty 
days, I suppose he could have done so forty years. What 
will be the status of the resurrection saints ? Jesus has 
condescended to settle that question. The Sadducees said 
there were no angels nor spirits ; and so to puzzle Jesus, 
they came and asked him to solve a difficulty: There 
were among us seven brethren, and the first married a 
wife, and died having no children ; and the second, and 
on to the seventh ; last of all the woman died also. Which 
of them then shall she be wife in the resurrection? Jesus 
says to them. Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures nor the 
pov/er of God ; for in the resurrection they neither marry 
nor are given in marriage ; neither can they die any more, 
for they are equal unto the angels, and are the children of 
God, being the children of the resurrection. 

At the close of that loug reign of the saints with Christ, 
Satan is to be loosed a little season, and as he is loosed, the 
wicked are raised, and ail go up on the breadth of the earth 
and compass tlie camp of the saints and the beloved city ; 
and fire conies down from God, out of heaven, and de- 
vours them. This burns up the world, according to Malachi 
and Peter, and then all the righteous are caught up to meet 
the Lord in the air, out of the way of a burning world. 
Immediately is the judgment scene ; the wicked doomed 
to their final abode, the righteous to the New Heaven, as 
in Rev. 21. This done, Clirist gives up the kingdom to 
God the Father, that God may be all in all. 



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